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
Tennessee, limitations upon Negroes in respect to occupations in, 43;
marriages between slaves and free Negroes in, 74;
effect given to marriages in other States in, 93;
civil rights legislation in, 116–118;
race distinctions in theatres in, 134;
separation of races in, in asylums for deaf and blind, 148;
in public schools, 176;
in private schools, 190;
Negroes as witnesses in, 244;
early statute on Negro jury service in, 249;
Negro suffrage in, in 1834, 284;
qualifications for voting in, 334–335.
Texas, slave marriages legal in, by statute, 73;
effect of intermarriage in, 85;
separation of races in public schools of, 176;
division of public school fund in, 199;
early “Jim Crow” law in, 209;
separation of races in railroad cars in, 214;
Negroes as witnesses in, 244;
actual service by Negroes on juries in, 268–269;
qualifications for voting in, 334–335.
Theatres, race distinctions in, 134–136.
Thirteenth Amendment, 9.
See Civil Rights.
_Times-Democrat_, New Orleans, La., sued for calling white person
“colored,” 28.
Trains to which “Jim Crow” laws do not apply, 221–222.
_Tribune_, New York, on proper name for Negro, 22.
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“Understanding Clauses” as qualifications for voting, 308–310.
See Suffrage.
Unions, labor, race discriminations by, 140–141.
Upper Alton, Ill., separation of races in public schools of, 179.
Utah, selling liquor to Indians prohibited in, 45;
qualifications for voting in, 334–335.
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Vagrancy laws, 58–60;
in South Carolina, 58–59;
in Mississippi, 59–60;
as race distinctions, 275.
Vardaman, J. K., on division of public school fund between races, 195.
Vermont, qualifications for voting in, 334–335.
Virginia, contracts for labor by Negroes in, 47;
slave marriages legal in, by statute, 74;
effect of intermarriage in, 86;
punishment in, for performing ceremony, 88;
effect given to marriages in other States in, 93;
separation of races in public schools of, 176;
on steamboats in, 215;
Negroes as witnesses in, 245;
Indians as witnesses in, 245;
actual jury service by Negroes in, 269–271;
intimidation of Negroes at polls of, 293;
qualifications for voting in, 336–337.
_Voice of the Negro_, on proper name for Negro, 20.
Voting, qualifications for, in United States, table of, 322–339.
See Suffrage.
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Waiting rooms, separation of races in, 220–221.
Washington, selling liquor to Indians prohibited in, 45;
Negroes as witnesses in, 246;
Indians as witnesses in, 246;
qualifications for voting in, 336–337.
Washington, Booker T., on his ancestry, 13;
on proper name for Negro, 21;
and Hamlet, N. C., incident, 221;
on suffrage, 361.
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