14th Ammendment
The 14th Amendment has been the law of the land since mid 19th century but sadly enough it had only been the theory and had hardly been enforced until some time through the civil rights movement. ... One of the strongest arguments that had been used to disprove of all these statement had been that “You can’t ask whites as a class to bear the responsibly for statistical disparities, unless you can prove the whites were purposely excluding blacks…) (p287) Basically we can imply that the 14th amendment and other laws that stated “separate but equal” had been the laws on the books, but laws in action or rather the lack of laws in action had been totally absent from social reality of black people.