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
New Hampshire, qualifications for voting in, 330–331.
New Jersey, Negroes in militia of, 145;
separation of races in public schools of, 184;
qualifications for voting in, 330–331.
New Mexico, selling liquor to Indians prohibited in, 45;
repeal of law against intermarriage in, 90;
separation of races in public schools of, prohibited, 188;
qualifications for voting in, 338–339.
New York, slave marriages valid in, 74;
civil rights legislation in, 115;
race distinctions in restaurants in, 127;
at bootblack stands in, 130;
in cemeteries in, 136;
at skating rinks in, 136;
in theatres in, 136;
by insurance companies in, 138–139;
separation of races in asylums of, 148;
in public schools of, forbidden, 185;
Negro suffrage in, 283;
qualifications for voting in, 330–331.
_News and Courier_, Charleston, S. C., sued for calling white man
“colored,” 28.
“Nigger,” a term of contempt, 20.
Non-Caucasian races, marriage between, and Negroes, 90–91.
North Carolina, apprentice law of, 55;
effect of intermarriage in, 85;
punishment in, for issuing license for intermarriage, 86;
for performing ceremony, 87;
civil rights legislation in, 118–120;
separation of races in, in militia, 145;
in prisons, 147;
in insane asylums, 148;
in public schools, 173–174;
local taxation for schools of, 198;
on steamboats, 214;
actual service by Negroes on juries in, 265–267;
Negro suffrage in, before 1835, 283;
qualifications for voting in, 332–333.
North Dakota, qualifications for voting in, 332–333.
Northern States, intermarriage between Whites and Negroes in, 99;
civil rights legislation in, between 1865 and 1883, 112–115;
after 1883, 120–124.
Nurses, exempt from “Jim Crow” laws, 222, 232.
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Occupations, limitations upon Negroes in respect to, 41–43;
in Alabama, 41–42;
in South Carolina, 42;
in Mississippi, 43;
in Tennessee, 43.
See Contracts, Labor.
Officers in charge of prisoners exempt from “Jim Crow” laws, 222.
Ohio, “Black Laws” in, 37;
slave marriages legal in, by statute, 74;
repeal of laws against intermarriage in, 90;
race distinctions in, in saloons, 133;
by insurance companies, 138, 139;
separation of races in public schools of, before 1865, 165–167;
forbidden at present, 185;
intimidation of Negroes at polls of, 292;
qualifications for voting in, 332–333.
Oklahoma, effect of intermarriage in, 85;
punishment in, for issuing license for intermarriage, 86;
for performing ceremony, 87;
separation of races in public schools of, 174–175;
in private schools of, 191;
actual service by Negroes on juries in, 267;
qualifications for voting in, 332–333.
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