Race, Law, and American Society: 1607-PresentThis second edition of Gloria Browne-Marshall’s seminal work , tracing the history of racial discrimination in American law from colonial times to the present, is now available with major revisions. Throughout, she advocates for freedom and equality at the center, moving from their struggle for physical freedom in the slavery era to more recent battles for equal rights and economic equality. From the colonial period to the present, this book examines education, property ownership, voting rights, criminal justice, and the military as well as internationalism and civil liberties by analyzing the key court cases that established America’s racial system and demonstrating the impact of these court cases on American society. This edition also includes more on Asians, Native Americans, and Latinos. Race, Law, and American Society is highly accessible and thorough in its depiction of the role race has played, with the sanction of the U.S. Supreme Court, in shaping virtually every major American social institution. |
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... Court rules only federal government can decide what Native Americans can do with their land. Rachael, a woman of color v. Walker. Slave taken to live in free territory is free. Trail of Tears. Native Americans forced to walk from ...
... Court rules Civil Rights Act of 1870 cannot punish judges of election who exclude Black voters. Con- victions ofjudges overturned. 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn. The last great armed effort by Native Americans, against the U.S. Army ...
... Court rules racial bias in enforcement of statute violates rights of Chinese. Ida B. Wells-Barnett organizes Anti-Lynching Bureau. Battle of Wounded Knee. Over 100 Native American men, women, and children are killed by White federal ...
... Court rules racial segregation in public schools is inherently unequal. Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till murdered by lynch mob in Mississippi for talking back to a White woman. Lucy v. Adams. Autherine Lucy and Polly Anne Myers desegregate ...
... court conviction against Black witness ill-treated byjudge is overturned ... Court upholds Black state legislator's right to protest Vietnam War. Thurgood ... rules police can stop and frisk person who has not committed a crime, based ...
Contents
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Chapter 2 Race and the Struggle for Education in American Schools | 19 |
Chapter 3 Race Crime and Injustice | 51 |
Chapter 4 Civil Liberties and Racial Justice | 117 |
Chapter 5 Voting Rights and Restrictions | 177 |
Chapter 6 Property Rights and Ownership | 207 |
Chapter 7 Race and the Military | 251 |
Chapter 8 Race and Internationalism | 279 |
Selected Decisions oF the US Supreme Court | 315 |
Race Riots and Uprisings in the United States | 329 |
Persons Lynched by Race 18821920 | 331 |
US Military Conflicts | 333 |
Cases | 335 |
Notes | 341 |
Bibliography | 419 |
Index | 431 |