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Equality by Statute: Legal Controls Over Group Discrimination

✍ Scribed by Morroe Berger; Robert M. Maciver


Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Leaves
252
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


Describes and evaluates some of the legal developments from the Reconstruction period to the 1950s on both federal and state levels, and attempts to formulate some general principles on the relation between law and custom, public opinion and the mores, and to evaluate the efficacy of law as a means of controlling prejudice and discrimination.

✦ Table of Contents


Foreword
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
I. Civil Rights Today and During the Reconstruction Era
II. The Supreme Court, 1868–1937: Buttressing the Caste Order
III. The Supreme Court, 1937–1950: Undermining the Caste Order
IV. The New York State Law Against Discrimination: Operation and Administration
V. Law and the Control of Prejudice and Discrimination
Notes
Bibliography
List of Cases
Index


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