05-21-2022, 12:32 PM
It seems like the headstone of Paul Revere should be something much more impressive for this Folk Hero of the American Revolution. I see a beautiful gray marbled headstone with at least the first two stanzas of the famous poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride” (1863), written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, etched on the back of the tombstone.
On the other hand, a less admired famous person was Henry Billings Brown, who served as a Justice to the Supreme Court (1890-1906). Although a respected lawyer and U.S. District Judge before ascending to the high court, Brown is harshly criticized for writing the majority opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, widely regarded as one of the most ill-considered decisions ever issued by the Court, which upheld the legality of racial segregation in public transportation.?
The Plessy VS. Ferguson Case:
Separate But Equal Stands (1896)
In 1892, Louisiana passed the Separate Car Act, which segregated carrier cars by race. On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy, a light-skinned black man, sat in a "White" car, identifying himself as black in order to challenge the law. The thirty year-old Plessy was jailed for not sitting in the "Colored" car.[3]With seven votes for Ferguson and one vote against, the Supreme Court ruled that mandatory racial segregation was not in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Despite never using the term "separate, but equal," the court's ruling established that principle as a means of justifying segregation.[4]
It is a shame that in spite of many of the positive cases that Brown voted upon during his service as a Justice to the Supreme Court, he will always be marked by a single opinion he authored for the majority. Brown no doubt reflected the view in his day that whites were biologically separate from blacks and superior to blacks as a group.
His body rests in Elmwood Cemetary, Detroit Michigan. It was just one year ago that our camera club visited the cemetery. I did not know anything about this person until I decided to post this photograph and did a little research.
Edited to add:
Steve, I KNOW that i have not seen a RHODIE that big. Oh my goodness. That is beautiful. I don't think they have a fragrance, or do they?
Everytime you appear in the daily, Steve, I think about your tomato plants.
I am still debating whether to plant a garden this year. I know that I will be upset in three months if I do not have tomatoes to pick fresh from my garden but with doing all of the landscape work in the back, my garden is overrun with weeds. I am not sure how I would salvage it at this point. I was out there this morning at 7 am, debating what to do. If I do not grow tomatoes, I will buy a bushel from the Amish and make my spaghetti sauce, enough to last me for one year. We don't eat spaghetti once a week, like when I grew up. But it sure is different to have the sauce made with fresh tomatoes vs. canned.
Natalie, I see that you got your camera back out. Does it feel good in your hands? You sure took a wonderful photo to share with us. Way to pay attention to the background. Love all that color.
On the other hand, a less admired famous person was Henry Billings Brown, who served as a Justice to the Supreme Court (1890-1906). Although a respected lawyer and U.S. District Judge before ascending to the high court, Brown is harshly criticized for writing the majority opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, widely regarded as one of the most ill-considered decisions ever issued by the Court, which upheld the legality of racial segregation in public transportation.?
The Plessy VS. Ferguson Case:
Separate But Equal Stands (1896)
In 1892, Louisiana passed the Separate Car Act, which segregated carrier cars by race. On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy, a light-skinned black man, sat in a "White" car, identifying himself as black in order to challenge the law. The thirty year-old Plessy was jailed for not sitting in the "Colored" car.[3]With seven votes for Ferguson and one vote against, the Supreme Court ruled that mandatory racial segregation was not in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Despite never using the term "separate, but equal," the court's ruling established that principle as a means of justifying segregation.[4]
It is a shame that in spite of many of the positive cases that Brown voted upon during his service as a Justice to the Supreme Court, he will always be marked by a single opinion he authored for the majority. Brown no doubt reflected the view in his day that whites were biologically separate from blacks and superior to blacks as a group.
His body rests in Elmwood Cemetary, Detroit Michigan. It was just one year ago that our camera club visited the cemetery. I did not know anything about this person until I decided to post this photograph and did a little research.
Edited to add:
Steve, I KNOW that i have not seen a RHODIE that big. Oh my goodness. That is beautiful. I don't think they have a fragrance, or do they?
Everytime you appear in the daily, Steve, I think about your tomato plants.
I am still debating whether to plant a garden this year. I know that I will be upset in three months if I do not have tomatoes to pick fresh from my garden but with doing all of the landscape work in the back, my garden is overrun with weeds. I am not sure how I would salvage it at this point. I was out there this morning at 7 am, debating what to do. If I do not grow tomatoes, I will buy a bushel from the Amish and make my spaghetti sauce, enough to last me for one year. We don't eat spaghetti once a week, like when I grew up. But it sure is different to have the sauce made with fresh tomatoes vs. canned.
Natalie, I see that you got your camera back out. Does it feel good in your hands? You sure took a wonderful photo to share with us. Way to pay attention to the background. Love all that color.