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
Nature of Accommodations 223
Means of Separation 224
Designation of Separation 225
Punishment for Violating Law 225
Separation of Postal Clerks 227
Separation of Passengers in Street Cars 227
Present Extent of Separation 228
Method of Separation 229
Enforcement of Laws 231
Exemptions 232
CHAPTER X
NEGRO IN COURT ROOM 237–280
As Spectator 237
As Judge 238
As Lawyer 239
As Witness 241
As Juror 247
Actual Jury Service by Negroes in South 253
Separate Courts 272
Different Punishments 273
CHAPTER XI
SUFFRAGE 281–347
Negro Suffrage Before 1865 282
Suffrage Between 1865 and 1870 285
Suffrage Between 1870 and 1890 288
Southern Suffrage Amendments Since 1890 294
Citizenship 296
Age 297
Sex 298
Residence 298
Payment of Taxes 299
Ownership of Property 300
Educational Test 301
“Grandfather Clauses” 305
“Understanding and Character Clauses” 308
Persons Excluded from Suffrage 310
Suffrage in Insular Possessions of United States 312
Constitutionality of Suffrage Amendments 313
Maryland and Fifteenth Amendment 317
Extent of Actual Disfranchisement 320
Qualifications for Voting in the United States 322
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