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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... murdered. Somerset v. Steuart. British High Court decides slavery issue. Declaration of Independence. America's Revolutionary War begins. Commonwealth v. Jennison. Massachusetts outlaws slavery. U.S. Constitution ratified. Art. III ...
... murder of Ling Sing. Dred Scott v. Sandford. Court denies Blacks U.S. citizenship. Bailey v. Poindexter. Virginia court decides Blacks lack free will to make choices of any kind. The Civil War begins. President Lincoln delivers ...
... murdered her family. 1873 Nearly 300 Blacks are murdered during the Colfax Mas- sacre following a contested election in Colfax, Louisiana. 1875 United States v. Cruikshank. White defendants convicted in the Colfax Massacre released ...
... murder of Joe Kahahawai in Honolulu, Hawaii. 1932 Powell v. Alabama. State's failure to provide counsel in death ... murdered a Black suspect in custody is overturned. 1945 World War II ends. 1945 1948 1948 1948 1950 1951 1951 1954 1955 ...
... murder ofBlacks. Harry and Harriette Moore, voting rights activists, are killed in their sleep when a bomb explodes ... murdered by lynch mob in Mississippi for talking back to a White woman. Lucy v. Adams. Autherine Lucy and Polly Anne ...
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 |