Black resistance, white law : a history of constitutional racism in America /
Unavailable for a decade, now completely updated to the 1990s, this landmark book is a powerful indictment of federal use of the Constitution to maintain a racist status quo. Constitutional scholar Mary Frances Berry analyzes the reasons why millions of African Americans whose lives have improved en...
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New York :
A. Lane, Penguin Press,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Foundations of Repression
- 2. The Law of Black Suppression
- 3. Defiant Slaves and Defiant States
- 4. The Seminole War as a Black Freedom Movement: Phase One
- 5. The Seminole War as a Black Freedom Movement: Phase Two
- 6. Abolition and the Abrogation of Civil Liberties
- 7. Controlling Blacks During the Civil War
- 8. The Bottom Remains on the Bottom
- 9. Changing Modes of Oppression: 1877-1900
- 10. Riots, Lynchings, and Federal Quiescence
- 11. Moving Off Dead Center
- 12. The Illusion of a New Era
- 13. Toward Federal Protection
- 14. The States Act Despite Themselves
- 15. Riots, Rebellion, and Repression
- 16. Protests and Renewed Violence
- 17. More Rebellion and Repression
- 18. Still the "Disquieting" Presence
- Appendix: Excerpts from the United States Code.