Race Distinctions in American Law

About this eBook

Author

Stephenson, Gilbert Thomas, 1884-1972

Credits

Richard Tonsing and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

KF: Law in general, Comparative and uniform law, Jurisprudence: United States

Subject

African Americans -- Politics and government

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 65083

Release Date

April 14, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.RACE DISTINCTIONS IN AMERICAN LAW
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.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
4. 4.CHAPTER II WHAT IS A NEGRO? — LEGAL DEFINITION OF NEGRO — PROPER NAME FOR BLACK MEN IN AMERICA — NOTES
5. 5.CHAPTER III DEFAMATION TO CALL A WHITE PERSON A NEGRO — NOTES
6. 6.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
7. 7.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
8. 8.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
9. 9.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
10. 10.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
11. 11.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
12. 12.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
13. 13.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
14. 14.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
15. 15.TABLE OF CASES CITED [779]
16. 16.INDEX

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