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Black resistance, white law : a history of constitutional racism in America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berry, Mary Frances
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Books, [1995]
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans > History.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Foundations of repression
  • Law of black suppression
  • Defiant slaves and defiant states
  • Seminole war as a black freedom movement: phase one
  • Seminole war as a black freedom movement: phase two
  • Abolition and the abrogation of civil liberties
  • Controlling Blacks during the Civil War
  • Bottom remains on the bottom
  • Changing modes of oppression: 1877-1900
  • Riots, lynchings, and federal quiescence
  • Moving off dead center
  • Illusion of a new era
  • Toward federal protection
  • States act despite themselves
  • Riots, rebellion and repression
  • Protests and renewed violence
  • More rebellion and repression
  • Still the "disquieting" presence.