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
Missouri, “Black Laws” in, 37;
remarriage of slaves in, 69;
effect of intermarriage in, 85;
race distinctions in theatres in, 135;
separation of races in schools of, 173;
actual service by Negroes on juries in, 263–265;
chicken-stealing a felony in, 275;
qualifications for voting in, 330–331.
Mobile, Ala., curfew law for Negroes in, 276.
Mongolians, intermarriage between Whites and, 82–83;
separate schools for, permitted in California, 159;
as witnesses in California, 245.
See Chinese, Japanese.
Montana, qualifications for voting in, 330–331.
Movement of Negroes restricted, 40–41;
in Kentucky, 40;
in South Carolina, 40–41.
Mulattoes, difficulty in getting census enumeration of, 13;
definition of, 16;
separation of Negroes and, in churches, 144.
See Negroes.
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Name, proper, for Negro, 20–24.
Narrow-gauged roads, “Jim Crow” laws do not apply to, 221.
Nashville, Tenn., separation of races in saloons in, 133.
Nature of railroad accommodations under “Jim Crow” laws, 223–224.
See “Jim Crow” laws.
Naturalization of Africans, 297.
Nebraska, selling liquor to Indians prohibited in, 45;
qualifications for voting in, 330–331.
“Negress,” an offensive term, 22.
“Negro-Americans” as race name, 22.
“Negroes” as race name, 20.
Negroes, legal definition of, 12–20;
defamation to call Whites Negroes, 26–33;
movements of, restricted, 40–41;
in Kentucky, 40;
in South Carolina, 40–41;
limitations upon,
in respect to occupations, 41–43;
prohibited from having firearms, 43–44;
in Mississippi, 44;
in South Carolina, limited, 44;
selling liquor to, prohibited, 44;
in Kentucky, 44;
in Mississippi, 44;
contracts for labor by, 46–53;
apprentice laws applying to, 53–58;
marital relations of, fixed, 67–75;
remarriages of, after Emancipation, 68–70;
in Florida, 68;
in Georgia, 69;
in Missouri, 69;
marital relations of, established in South Carolina, 70;
marriages between other non-Caucasian races and, 90–91;
civil rights of, 102–149;
influence of Civil Rights Bill of 1866 upon conduct of, 105;
in militia, 144–145;
in court room, 237–277;
as judges, 238;
as lawyers, 239–241;
as witnesses, 246;
as jurors, 247–272;
jury service of, and Fourteenth Amendment, 252;
actual jury service of, in South, 253–271;
separate courts for, 272–273;
suffrage for, 281–289;
and Fifteenth Amendment, 281–282;
in New York, 283;
in North Carolina before 1835, 283;
in Tennessee in 1834, 284;
before 1865, 282–285;
between 1865 and 1870, 285–288;
and Fourteenth Amendment, 287;
between 1870 and 1890, 288–294.
Nevada, effect of intermarriage in, 85;
punishment in, for performing ceremony, 87;
for cohabitation without intermarriage, 89;
separation of races in public schools of, 184;
Negroes as witnesses in, 246;
qualifications for voting in, 330–331.
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