CONTENTS

 
CHAPTER I
 
    PAGE
Introductory 111
  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? 1225
  Legal Definition of Negro 12
  Proper Name for Black Men in America 20
 
 
CHAPTER III
 
Defamation to Call a White Person a Negro 2634
 
 
CHAPTER IV
 
The “Black Laws” of 1865–68 3566
  “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 6777
  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 78101
  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 102153
  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 154206
  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 207236
  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 237280
  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 281347
  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 348362
  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