TY - BOOK AU - Berger,Morroe AU - Maciver,Robert M. TI - Equality by Statute: Legal Controls Over Group Discrimination SN - 9780231910309 AV - KF4749 .B47 1952 U1 - 323.4 PY - 1952///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Columbia University Press, KW - Civil rights KW - United States KW - Discrimination KW - LAW / Discrimination KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.7312/berg91030 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231881708 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780231881708.jpg ER -