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Author Berry, Mary Frances.

Title Black resistance, white law : a history of constitutional racism in America / Mary Frances Berry.

Imprint New York : Penguin Books, 1995, c1994.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  323.1196 B459b, 1995    ---  Available
Description xiv, 319 p. ; 20 cm.
Note Reprint of the rev. and updated ed. Originally published: New York : A. Lane, Penguin Press, 1994.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-294) and index.
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.
Subject African Americans -- Civil rights.
African Americans -- History.
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
ISBN 0140232982 (pbk.)

 
    
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