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Police Power; Schools for White and Colored Persons |
16 Yale Law Journal 45 (November, 1906) |
Following the Civil war it was generally thought that the solving. of the negro question lay in the association of the colored people with the whites. A decade, however, has wrought a change in this view; public opinion, especially in the southern states, has discarded the association idea and the separation of the races is now considered the... |
1906 |
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Constitutional Law-negroes as Grand Jurors-inquiry of Federal Court into Rules of Local Practice.-rogers V. Alabama, 24 Sup. Ct. 257 |
13 Yale Law Journal 396 (May, 1904) |
Plaintiff in error made a motion, two printed pages in length, to quash an indictment, because of the exclusion of negroes from the grand jury list, alleging that this was due to the inequality of his race under the State constitution. The State court struck the motion from the files, under color of local practice, on the ground of prolixity. Held,... |
1904 |
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Discrimination Against Negroes as Jurors |
17 Harvard Law Review 351 (March, 1904) |
Few questions arising under the Fourteenth Amendment have proved more fruitful of controversy than that as to discrimination against negroes in drawing jurors. It is, indeed, no longer disputed that a statute providing that only white men shall be eligible as jurors is in conflict with the amendment. A negro tried by a jury empanelled under such a... |
1904 |
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Negro Peonage and the Thirteenth Amendment |
13 Yale Law Journal 452 (June, 1904) |
No little interest has been aroused by Judge Speer's recent decision in the District Court at Savannah (United States v. McClellan, 127 Fed. 971), maintaining the application of the Thirteenth Amendment to uphold the constitutionality of the statutes of 1867 against peonage, and their prohibition of recent attempts to obtain forced labor from... |
1904 |
| John R. Dos Passos |
The Negro Question |
12 Yale Law Journal 467 (June, 1903) |
On January 5, 1867, Andrew Johnson closed a message to the United States Senate vetoing the District of Columbia Suffrage Bill in these words: After full deliberation upon this measure I cannot bring myself to approve it, even upon local considerations, nor yet as the beginning of an experiment on a larger scale. I yield to no one in attachment to... |
1903 |
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Schools Discrimination Against Colored Children-rights under the Fourteenth Amendment |
9 Yale Law Journal 227 (March, 1900) |
In the case of J. N. Cummings et al. v. County Board of Education, of Richmond County, State of Georgia, reported in 20 Sup. Ct. Rep. 197, the United States Supreme Court sustains the decision of the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia in refusing to grant an injunction restraining the Board of Education from maintaining a high school for white... |
1900 |