Race Distinctions in American Law
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Excerpt from Race Distinctions in American LawAmerica has to-day no problem more perplexing and disquieting than that of the proper and permanent rela tions between the white and the colored races. Although it concerns most vitally the twenty millions of Caucasians and the eight millions of Negroes in eleven States of the South, still it is a national problem, because whatever affects one part of our national organism concerns the whole of it. Although this question has been considered from almost every conceivable standpoint, few have turned to the laws of the States and of the Nation to see ...
Chapters (560)
- RACE DISTINCTIONS IN AMERICAN LAW
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- WHAT IS A RACE DISTINCTION IN LAW?
- DISTINCTIONS AND DISCRIMINATIONS CONTRASTED
- LEGAL AND ACTUAL DISTINCTIONS
- ALL RACE ELEMENTS INCLUDED
- PERIOD COVERED FROM 1865 TO PRESENT
- NOTES
- CHAPTER II WHAT IS A NEGRO?
- LEGAL DEFINITION OF NEGRO
- PROPER NAME FOR BLACK MEN IN AMERICA
- NOTES
- CHAPTER III DEFAMATION TO CALL A WHITE PERSON A NEGRO
- NOTES
- CHAPTER IV THE “BLACK LAWS” OF 1865–68
- “BLACK LAWS” OF FREE STATES
- RESTRICTIONS UPON MOVEMENT OF NEGROES
- LIMITATIONS UPON NEGROES IN RESPECT TO OCCUPATIONS
- SALE OF FIREARMS AND LIQUOR TO NEGROES
- LABOR CONTRACTS OF NEGROES
- APPRENTICE LAWS
- VAGRANCY LAWS
- PAUPER LAWS
- NOTES
- CHAPTER V RECONSTRUCTION OF MARITAL RELATIONS OF NEGROES
- REMARRIAGES
- CERTIFICATES OF MARRIAGE
- SLAVE MARRIAGES DECLARED LEGAL BY STATUTE
- MARRIAGES BETWEEN SLAVES AND FREE NEGROES
- FEDERAL LEGISLATION
- NOTES
- CHAPTER VI INTERMARRIAGE AND MISCEGENATION
- INTERMARRIAGE DURING RECONSTRUCTION
- PRESENT STATE OF THE LAW AGAINST INTERMARRIAGE
- TO WHOM THE LAWS APPLY
- EFFECT OF ATTEMPTED INTERMARRIAGE
- PUNISHMENT FOR INTERMARRIAGE
- PUNISHMENT FOR ISSUING LICENSES
- PUNISHMENT FOR PERFORMING THE CEREMONY
- COHABITATION WITHOUT INTERMARRIAGE
- STATES REPEALING LAWS AGAINST INTERMARRIAGE
- MARRIAGES BETWEEN THE NEGRO AND NON-CAUCASIAN RACES
- EFFECT GIVEN TO MARRIAGES IN OTHER STATES
- INTERMARRIAGE AND THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION
- INTERMARRIAGES IN BOSTON
- NOTES
- CHAPTER VII CIVIL RIGHTS OF NEGROES
- FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION
- STATE LEGISLATION BETWEEN 1865 AND 1883
- In States Outside of South
- In South
- STATE LEGISLATION AFTER 1883
- In South
- In States Outside of South
- PENALTY FOR VIOLATING THE LAW
- HOTELS
- RESTAURANTS
- BARBER-SHOPS
- BOOTBLACK STANDS
- BILLIARD-ROOMS
- SALOONS
- SODA FOUNTAINS
- THEATRES
- SKATING RINKS
- CEMETERIES
- RACE DISCRIMINATION BY INSURANCE COMPANIES
- RACE DISCRIMINATIONS BY LABOR UNIONS
- CHURCHES
- NEGROES IN THE MILITIA
- SEPARATION OF STATE DEPENDENTS
- NOTES
- CHAPTER VIII SEPARATION OF RACES IN SCHOOLS
- BEREA COLLEGE AFFAIR
- EXCLUSION OF JAPANESE FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF SAN FRANCISCO
- DR. CHARLES W. ELIOT ON SEPARATION OF RACES IN SCHOOLS
- SEPARATION BEFORE 1865
- PRESENT EXTENT OF SEPARATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- (a) In South
- (b) In States Outside of South
- SEPARATION IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS
- EQUALITY OF ACCOMMODATIONS
- DIVISION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND
- NOTES
- CHAPTER IX SEPARATION OF RACES IN PUBLIC CONVEYANCES
- ORIGIN OF “JIM CROW”
- DEVELOPMENT OF LEGISLATION PRIOR TO 1875
- LEGISLATION BETWEEN 1865 AND 1881
- SEPARATION OF PASSENGERS ON STEAMBOATS
- SEPARATION OF PASSENGERS IN RAILROAD CARS
- Interstate and Intrastate Travel
- Sleeping Cars
- Waiting-Rooms
- Trains to which Laws do not Apply
- Passengers to whom Law does not Apply
- Nature of Accommodations
- Means of Separation
- Designation of Separation
- Punishment for Violating Law
- Separation of Postal Clerks
- SEPARATION OF PASSENGERS IN STREET CARS
- Present Extent of Separation
- Method of Separation
- Enforcement of Laws
- Exemptions
- NOTES
- CHAPTER X NEGRO IN COURT ROOM
- AS SPECTATOR
- AS JUDGE
- AS LAWYER
- AS WITNESS
- AS JUROR
- Actual Jury Service by Negroes in South
- SEPARATE COURTS
- DIFFERENT PUNISHMENTS
- NOTES
- CHAPTER XI SUFFRAGE
- NEGRO SUFFRAGE BEFORE 1865
- SUFFRAGE BETWEEN 1865 AND 1870
- SUFFRAGE BETWEEN 1870 AND 1890
- SOUTHERN SUFFRAGE AMENDMENTS SINCE 1890
- Citizenship
- Age
- Sex
- Residence
- Payment of Taxes
- Ownership of Property
- Educational Test
- “Grandfather Clauses”
- “Understanding and Character Clauses”
- Persons Excluded from Suffrage
- SUFFRAGE IN INSULAR POSSESSIONS OF UNITED STATES
- CONSTITUTIONALITY OF SUFFRAGE AMENDMENTS
- MARYLAND AND FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT
- EXTENT OF ACTUAL DISFRANCHISEMENT
- QUALIFICATIONS FOR VOTING IN THE UNITED STATES.
- NOTES
- CHAPTER XII RACE DISTINCTIONS VERSUS RACE DISCRIMINATIONS
- RACE DISTINCTIONS NOT CONFINED TO ONE SECTION
- RACE DISTINCTIONS NOT CONFINED TO ONE RACE
- RACE DISTINCTIONS NOT DECREASING
- DISTINCTIONS NOT BASED ON RACE SUPERIORITY
- SOLUTION OF RACE PROBLEM HINDERED BY MULTIPLICITY OF PROPOSED REMEDIES
- SEARCH FOR A COMMON PLATFORM
- PROPER PLACE OF RACE DISTINCTIONS
- OBLITERATION OF RACE DISCRIMINATIONS
- NOTES
- TABLE OF CASES CITED[779]
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