Race Distinctions in American LawStephenson, Gilbert Thomas
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Race Distinctions in American Law
Stephenson, Gilbert Thomas
African Americans -- Politics and government; Law -- United States -- History; United States -- Race relations
Alabama, limitations in, upon Negroes in respect to occupations, 41–42;
sale of drugs by free Negroes prohibited in, 42;
separation of paupers by race in, 47;
apprentice laws in, 53;
slave marriages legal in, by statute, 73;
effect of attempted intermarriage in, 84;
punishment in, for issuing license for intermarriage, 86;
for performing ceremony, 87;
for cohabitation without intermarriage, 88;
separation of races in, in prisons, 146;
in asylums for deaf and blind, 148;
in public schools, 170;
division of public school fund between races in, 195;
Negroes as witnesses in, 242;
actual service by Negroes on juries in, 253–264;
qualifications for voting in, 322–323.
Alaska, qualifications for voting in, 338–339.
Albany, N. Y., separation of races in schools of, 185.
Aliens as voters, 296–297.
Alton, Ill., separation of races in schools of, 180.
Amalgamation, between race elements in United States, 12;
race line blurred by, 12.
See Intermarriage, Miscegenation.
Amendments to Federal Constitution, purpose of first ten, 102.
See Constitutionality, Suffrage.
Anderson, Charles W., on proper name for Negro, 23.
Apprentice laws applying to Negroes, 53–58;
in Alabama, 53;
in Kentucky, 53;
in North Carolina, 53;
in Mississippi,
53–55;
in South Carolina, 55–57;
in Delaware, 57;
constitutionality of, 57.
Arizona, selling liquor and firearms to Indians prohibited in, 45;
effect given to marriages in other States by, 93;
separation of races in schools of, 187;
qualifications for voting in, 338–339.
Arkansas, slave marriages legal in, by statute, 73;
punishment in, for performing ceremony of intermarriage, 87;
civil rights legislation in, 116;
Negroes in militia in, 145;
separation of races in prisons of, 146;
in schools of, 170;
Negroes as witnesses in, 242;
early statute in, on Negro jury service, 249;
actual service by Negroes on juries in, 254–255;
qualifications for voting in, 322–323.
Arnett, Benjamin W., excluded from hotels in Boston, 126.
Asheville, N. C., suits in, over mistakes in race designation in
directory, 32.
Asylums, separation of races in, 148.
Atlanta, Ga., separation of races in saloons of, 133.
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Baker, Ray Stannard, “Following the Colour Line,” 6;
on
intermarriage in North, 99;
on race discrimination by labor unions, 140.
Baptist denomination, race distinctions in, 141.
Barber shops, race distinctions in, 129–130.
Berea College, separation of races in, 154–159.
Billiard rooms, race distinctions in, 131–132.
“Black Laws,” of 1865–68, 35–63;
of free States, 36–39;
excuse for Reconstruction régime, 62–63.
Black man, proper name for, in America, 20–24.
“Blacks” as race name, 21.
Blind, in asylums, separated by race, 147.
Boarding houses. See Restaurants.
Bootblack stands, race distinctions at, 130–131.
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