The Legal Status of the NegroThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2000 - 436 pages Originally published: Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1940. viii, 436 pp. This was the first comprehensive treatise on the legal status of the African-American as interpreted by United States courts in cases involving civil rights and citizenship. Some of the topics examined in this work are land ownership, involuntary servitude, segregation, failure to provide accommodations in charitable and penal institutions, interracial marriage, illegitimate offspring and adoption, as well as consideration of such factors as mob domination at trials of African-Americans, race discrimination in jury selection, racial prejudice of jurors, the voting franchise during reconstruction and its aftermath and attempts to keep African-Americans away from the polls. While lacking a table of cases per se, the treatise is well-annotated with citations to relevant cases, and includes a bibliography and index. Charles S. Mangum, Jr. [1902-1980] was a Research Fellow at the University of North Carolina. His other notable work is The Legal Status of the Tenant Farmer in the Southeast (1952). "An enormous compendium of cases, it is a product of sound and painstaking scholarship, brilliant in design, thorough in execution, and deft in style." "It is the first comprehensive collection of legal materials in its field." Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection of New York University (1953) 334. |
Contents
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EDUCATION 778 | 78 |
PROPERTY RIGHTS | 138 |
INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE | 163 |
LABOR AND RELATED PROBLEMS | 173 |
JIM CROW LAWS AND REGULATIONS | 181 |
CHARITABLE AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS | 223 |
MARRIAGE AND OTHER DOMESTIC PROBLEMS | 236 |
RACE DISCRIMINATION IN THE SELECTION | 308 |
RACE PREJUDICE OF JURORS | 336 |
THE RIGHT TO EFFICIENT COUNSEL | 343 |
PUNISHMENTS AND SENTENCES | 364 |
THE VOTING FRANCHISE | 371 |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 425 |
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Page 27 - Mangum characterizes these laws as follows: These Black Codes gave the Negro population very little freedom. The colored man was free in name only in many cases. The apprentice, vagrancy, and other provisions of these statutes forced the Negro into situations where he would be under the uncontrolled supervision of his former master or other white men who were ready and willing to exploit his labor.16 The historical background for these laws was the need for some kind of regulations of the freedmen's...