Texas v. White was a landmark Supreme Court case decided in 1869 in which the court established that, shockingly, the secession of a state from the United States is unconstitutional and despite Texas’s declaration of secession from the Union during the Civil War, Texas had never actually left the Union and all acts by the state legislature declaring otherwise were “absolutely null.”
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Racism Uncovered (Part 2): The Civil War
Part 2: The Civil War
In this series, Racism in America, I aim to discuss the history of the United States with a focus on the topic of racism, both systemic and individual racism. Through this series, I hope to play a part in fighting the issue of racism that still persists in our society today. This series was inspired by the Black Lives Matter protest movement.
In the last post in this series, we discussed the issue of slavery in the United States when it was a young country, all the way until the mid-1800s. We left off after discussing the Dred Scott Decision. In today’s post, we will talk about the events that led to the Civil War and the consequences of the Civil War.
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