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
Washington, D. C., City of Refuge for miscegenating couples, 94;
separation of prisoners by race in, 147;
separate public schools in, 189.
West Virginia, 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;
Negroes in militia of, 145;
separation of races in asylums for insane in, 149;
in public schools of, 186;
qualifications for voting in, 336–337.
“White,” omitted from statutes of Florida, 116;
of New York, 115;
required on street cars, 231;
stricken from election laws of Dakota Territory, 286;
from Constitution of Iowa, 286;
from suffrage laws, 288;
still in Maryland Constitution, 288, 317.
White, John, and Lost Colony, 90–91.
White persons, defamation to call, Negroes, 26–33;
intermarriage between, and Chinese, 82–83;
and Kanakans, 83;
and Indians, 82–83.
Wisconsin, qualifications for voting in, 336–337.
Witnesses, Negroes as, 241–247.
Wyoming, separation of races in public schools of, 186;
qualifications for voting in, 338–339.
X
Xenia, Ohio, intermarriage at, 99.
Y
Y. M. C. A., separation of races in, 144.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
2. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.
3. Footnotes were re-indexed using numbers.
4. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
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