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- W1156727227 abstract "BOOK REVIEW THE PETITIONERS: The Story of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Negro. By Loren Miller. Cleve- land: Meridian Books by World Pub- lishing Co., 1966. 461 pp. T VOLUME has been available in paperback since 1966 and deserves a wider readership than it has received. As the subtitle states, it is the Story of The Supreme Court of the United tSates and the Negro. It is in essence, then, an historical monograph. Divided into four parts, the first deals with the framing and stabilizing of the U.S. Constitution and the Supreme Court's early decisions involving the Negro. Part two moves from the Dred Scott Case' to Plessy v. Ferguson. 2 Parts three and four develop in a topical, rather than linear narrative, the legal history of the relationship be- tween the black man and the Court from 1895-1965. Generally, those topics are: labor-employment, education, the fran- chise, fair trial, housing, and the role played by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the struggle for racial equality before the law. Before formally beginning this review, however, it is appropriate to draw a vignette of the book's author, the late Judge Loren Miller. Failure to pay public, and personal, tribute to the human being, Loren Miller, would have been a serious error here. He was modest, warm, and strong; and had a way of looking at one that seemed to blend those reassuring Nebraskan qualities suggestive of his birthplace with the stark, sharp, finely honed intellect suggestive of his long life in California. Reporter, newspaper publisher, lawyer, judge, scholar, and Negro activist (when speaking those last two words in the same breath was tantamount to making con- tradictory assertions of fact), his was indeed an illustrious and valuable life. HIS However, two other qualitative aspects of that life may have been of greater im- portance - one objective, the other sub- jective. Loren Miller was a beautiful human being ; he cared for his fellow man, and he helped his fellowman. One suspects, however, that the one pride in his life he allowed himself to thoroughly enjoy, even to the point of sinfulness, was his awareness of the response pro- voked when a southern attorney discov- ered who was on the case preparation for the NAACP's opposing brief. The name Loren Miller meant a very difficult fight had. been arranged, probably had been promoted. To mark that fact and to celebrate it in this publication, is particu- larly appropriate. TWO THEMES dominate Judge Miller's recitation of his story of the Supreme Court and the Negro. One is the forced reliance of the Negro on Supreme Court action for vindication of ordinary rights and privileges of citizenship, 3 a reliance required by the guardian-ward relation- ship initiated by the Court and imposed during the mid-1800's. The other theme we shall call The Civil Rights Circle. In a sense it is derivative from the guar-. dian-ward relationship. For Judge Miller argues that the Civil War Amendments and Reconstruction legislation has de- creed legal (and political) equality for the newly freed black man. That decree was subverted by narrow Supreme Court interpretations and, ultimately, destroyed by that body's assignment of its self- created guardianship, with its concomit- ant duties, to the states. The Court per- petrated such questionable activity for the purpose of reestablishing its suprem- 1. Dred 2. Plessy 3. Loren preme Scott Case, 19 How. 393 (1857). v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896). Miller, The Petitioners: The Story of the Su- Court of the United States and the Negro at 13 thereinafter cited as Miller]." @default.
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