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
Railroads, separation of races on cars of, 216–227;
punishment upon companies for violating “Jim Crow” laws, 225–226.
See Conveyances, “Jim Crow” laws.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, and Lost Colony, 90–91.
Reconstruction, and “Black Laws,” 62–63;
and intermarriage, 78–80;
and separation of races in public conveyances, 209–210.
Reduction of representation of Southern States in Congress, 287.
Reformatories, separation of races in, 147.
Relief trains, “Jim Crow” do not apply to, 221.
Remarriage of Negroes after Emancipation, 68–70;
in Florida, 68;
in Georgia, 69;
in Missouri, 69.
Remedies for race problem, 354–355.
Repeal of laws against intermarriage, 89–90.
Representation in Congress, reduction of, 287.
Residence as qualification for voting, 316.
See Suffrage.
Restaurants, race distinctions in, 127–129.
Restrictions upon movements of Negroes, 40–41;
in Kentucky, 40;
in South Carolina, 40–41.
See “Black Laws.”
Rhode Island, repeal of law against intermarriage in, 90;
qualifications for voting in, 332–333.
Robeson County, N. C., and Croatan Indians, 91.
Roosevelt, President, on separation of races in schools of San
Francisco, 160.
S
Saloons, race distinctions in, 132–133;
in Atlanta, Ga., 133;
in Nashville, Tenn., 133;
in Louisiana, 133.
San Francisco, exclusion of Japanese from public schools
of, 159–163;
separation of races on street cars of, 212.
Schools, separation of races in, 154–199;
before 1865, 155–170;
present extent of separation in, 170–190;
in private schools, 190–192;
division of public school fund between races, 194–199.
Scott, Dred, decision, 8;
contravened by Civil Rights Bill of 1866, 105.
Separation of Whites and Negroes, in saloons, in Atlanta, Ga., 133;
in Nashville, Tenn., 133;
in Louisiana, 133;
in churches, 141–144;
in militia, 144–145;
State dependents, 146–149;
blind, 147;
lunatics, 147;
mutes, 147;
paupers, 147;
persons in reformatories, 147;
prisoners, 147;
in schools, 154–199;
before 1865, 165–170;
present extent of, 170–190;
in public schools in South, 170–176;
during Reconstruction, 175;
in States outside South, 177–199;
in private schools, 190–192;
in public conveyances, 207–233;
during Reconstruction, 209–210;
on steamboats, 214;
in railroad cars, 216–227;
on sleeping cars, 219–220;
in waiting rooms, 220–221;
of postal clerks on mail cars, 227;
on street cars, 227–233;
in court rooms, 238.
Service on juries in South by Negroes, 253–271.
Sex as qualification for voting, 298.
See Suffrage.
Sims, Thetus W., on proper name for Negro, 21.
Skating rinks, race distinctions at, 136.
Slander, actionable _per se_, to call White a Negro, 26–33.
Slaughter-House Cases interpreting Fourteenth Amendment, 107–108.
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