CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| PAGE | |||
| Introductory | [1]–[11] | ||
| What is a Race Distinction in Law | [1] | ||
| Distinctions and Discriminations Contrasted | [2] | ||
| Legal and Actual Distinctions | [5] | ||
| All Race Elements Included | [6] | ||
| Period Covered from 1865 to Present | [7] | ||
| CHAPTER II | |||
| What is a Negro? | [12]–[25] | ||
| Legal Definition of Negro | [12] | ||
| Proper Name for Black Men in America | [20] | ||
| CHAPTER III | |||
| Defamation to Call a White Person a Negro | [26]–[34] | ||
| CHAPTER IV | |||
| The “Black Laws” of 1865–68 | [35]–[66] | ||
| “Black Laws” of Free States | [36] | ||
| Restrictions upon Movement of Negroes | [40] | ||
| Limitations upon Negroes in Respect to Occupations | [41] | ||
| Sale of Firearms and Liquor to Negroes | [43] | ||
| Labor Contracts of Negroes | [46] | ||
| Apprentice Laws | [53] | ||
| Vagrancy Laws | [58] | ||
| Pauper Laws | [60] | ||
| CHAPTER V | |||
| Reconstruction of Marital Relations | [67]–[77] | ||
| Remarriages | [68] | ||
| Certificates of Marriage | [70] | ||
| Slave Marriages Declared Legal by Statute | [73] | ||
| Marriages Between Slaves and Free Negroes | [74] | ||
| Federal Legislation | [75] | ||
| CHAPTER VI | |||
| Intermarriage and Miscegenation | [78]–[101] | ||
| Intermarriage During Reconstruction | [78] | ||
| Present State of the Law Against Intermarriage | [81] | ||
| To Whom the Laws Apply | [81] | ||
| Effect of Attempted Intermarriage | [83] | ||
| Punishment for Intermarriage | [84] | ||
| Punishment for Issuing Licenses | [86] | ||
| Punishment for Performing the Ceremony | [87] | ||
| Cohabitation Without Intermarriage | [88] | ||
| States Repealing Laws Against Intermarriage | [89] | ||
| Marriages Between the Negro and Non-Caucasian Races | [90] | ||
| Effect Given to Marriages in Other States | [92] | ||
| Intermarriage and the Federal Constitution | [95] | ||
| Intermarriages in Boston | [98] | ||
| CHAPTER VII | |||
| Civil Rights of Negroes | [102]–[153] | ||
| Federal Civil Rights Legislation | [103] | ||
| State Legislation Between 1865 and 1883 | [111] | ||
| In States Outside of South | [112] | ||
| In South | [115] | ||
| State Legislation After 1883 | [120] | ||
| In South | [120] | ||
| In States Outside of South | [120] | ||
| Hotels | [124] | ||
| Restaurants | [127] | ||
| Barber-shops | [129] | ||
| Bootblack Stands | [130] | ||
| Billiard-rooms | [131] | ||
| Saloons | [132] | ||
| Soda Fountains | [133] | ||
| Theatres | [134] | ||
| Skating-Rinks | [136] | ||
| Cemeteries | [136] | ||
| Race Discrimination by Insurance Companies | [138] | ||
| Race Discriminations by Labor Unions | [140] | ||
| Churches | [141] | ||
| Negroes in the Militia | [144] | ||
| Separation of State Dependents | [146] | ||
| CHAPTER VIII | |||
| Separation of Races in Schools | [154]–[206] | ||
| Berea College Affair | [154] | ||
| Exclusion of Japanese from Public Schools of San Francisco | [159] | ||
| Dr. Charles W. Eliot on Separation of Races in Schools | [163] | ||
| Separation Before 1865 | [165] | ||
| Present Extent of Separation in Public Schools | [170] | ||
| In South | [170] | ||
| In States Outside of South | [177] | ||
| Separation in Private Schools | [190] | ||
| Equality of Accommodations | [192] | ||
| Division of Public School Fund | [194] | ||
| CHAPTER IX | |||
| Separation of Races in Public Conveyances | [207]–[236] | ||
| Origin of “Jim Crow” | [208] | ||
| Development of Legislation Prior to 1875 | [208] | ||
| Legislation Between 1865 and 1881 | [211] | ||
| Separation of Passengers on Steamboats | [214] | ||
| Separation of Passengers in Railroad Cars | [216] | ||
| Interstate and Intrastate Travel | [217] | ||
| Sleeping Cars | [219] | ||
| Waiting-Rooms | [220] | ||
| Trains to which Laws do not Apply | [221] | ||
| Passengers to whom Law does not Apply | [222] | ||
| 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] | ||
| CHAPTER XII | |||
| Race Distinctions versus Race Discriminations | [348]–[362] | ||
| Race Distinctions not Confined to One Section | [348] | ||
| Race Distinctions not Confined to One Race | [350] | ||
| Race Distinctions not Decreasing | [351] | ||
| Distinctions not Based on Race Superiority | [353] | ||
| Solution of Race Problem Hindered by Multiplicity of Proposed Remedies | [354] | ||
| Search for a Common Platform | [355] | ||
| Proper Place of Race Distinctions | [356] | ||
| Obliteration of Race Discriminations | [358] | ||
| Table of Cases Cited | [363] | ||
| Index | [369] | ||
RACE DISTINCTIONS IN
AMERICAN LAW