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Conflict Between The Judiciary And The Legislature In School Desegregation, Edward P. Meyers
Conflict Between The Judiciary And The Legislature In School Desegregation, Edward P. Meyers
Fordham Law Review
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Selecting A Remedy For Private Racial Discrimination: Statutes In Search Of Scope, John M. Peterson
Selecting A Remedy For Private Racial Discrimination: Statutes In Search Of Scope, John M. Peterson
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Racial discrimination in the United States has been effectively attacked in both the legislatures and the courts for over a hundred years. Enslavement of blacks in the American South prompted adoption of the thirteenth amendment and the Reconstruction Civil Rights Acts enacted pursuant to the amendment’s enabling clause. These laws sought primarily to elevate the status of the black freedman by granting him rights equal to those enjoyed by white citizens. The most far-reaching of these statutes is 42 U.S.C. § 1981, derived from the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which insures to all persons the same right to make …