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Berger, Morroe

Equality by Statute : Legal Controls Over Group Discrimination / Morroe Berger. - 1 online resource (238 p.)

Frontmatter -- 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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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.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9780231910309 9780231881708

Standard No.: 10.7312/berg91030 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Civil rights--United States.
Discrimination--United States.
LAW / Discrimination.

LC Class. No.: KF4749 / .B47 1952

Dewey Class. No.: 323.4