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Equality by Statute : Legal Controls over Group Discrimination / Morroe Berger ; foreword by Robert M. Maciver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berger, Morroe, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights--United States.
- Civil rights.
- Discrimination--United States.
- Discrimination.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 1954.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780231881708
- 0231881703
- OCLC:
- 1097507869
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