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
Kanakans, term defined, 25;
intermarriage between, and Whites, 83.
Kansas, civil rights legislation, 114;
race distinctions in cemeteries, 136;
separation of race in public schools of cities of first class, 183;
intimidation of Negroes at polls, 292;
qualifications for voting, 326–327.
Kentucky, movements of Negroes restricted in, 40;
selling liquor to Negroes prohibited in, 44;
contracts for labor by Negroes in, 47;
apprentice laws in, 53;
certificates of slave marriages in, 70–72;
separation of lunatics by race in, 148;
separation of races in private schools of, 154–155;
in public schools of, 171;
local taxation for schools of, 196–197;
Negroes as witnesses in, 242–243;
actual service by Negroes on juries in, 258;
different punishments for Negroes in, 274;
punishment for chicken-stealing in, 275;
qualifications for voting in, 326–327.
Kitchin, W. W., on Negro suffrage in North Carolina in 1835, 283.
Knox, John B., on suffrage, 361.
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Labor, contracts for, by Negroes, 46–53;
in Florida, 46;
in Kentucky, 47;
in Mississippi, 47;
in Virginia, 47;
in South Carolina, 48–53.
Labor unions, race discrimination by, 140–141.
Lawyers, Negroes as, 239–241.
Legitimacy of children of slave marriages, 67–75.
See Marriages.
License, punishment for issuing, for intermarriage, 86–87.
Limitations upon Negroes in respect to occupations, 41–43.
Lincoln, Neb., race distinctions in barber shops in, 129.
Liquor, sale of, to free Negroes prohibited, 43–44;
in Kentucky, 44;
in Mississippi, 44;
sale of, to Indians prohibited, 45–46;
in Arizona, 45;
in Dakota Territory, 45;
in Idaho, 45;
in Nebraska, 45;
in Utah, 45;
in Washington, 45;
in Maine, 46.
Lost Colony and Virginia Dare, 90–91.
Louisiana, certificates of slave marriages in, 72;
punishment in, for cohabitation
without intermarriage, 89;
civil rights legislation in, 116;
separation of races in saloons in, 133;
race distinctions in theatres in, 135;
separation of races in schools of, during Reconstruction, 171;
at present, 172;
race distinctions on public conveyances in, 213;
early statute on Negro jury service in, 249;
actual service by Negroes on juries in, 258–259;
intimidation of Negroes at polls in, 293;
qualifications for voting in, 326–327.
Lucas County, O., race distinctions in restaurants in, 128.
Lunatics, separated by race, 147.
Lunch counters. See Restaurants.
Lynch, James, body of, removed from white to Negro cemetery, 137.
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Machen, A. W., Jr., on Fifteenth Amendment, 319.
Maine, sale of liquor to Indians prohibited in, 46;
repeal of law against intermarriage of Negroes and Whites in, 90;
qualifications for voting in, 328–329.
Marital relations of slaves fixed, 67–75.
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