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States' Laws on Race and Color (Studies in the Legal History of the South)

Pauli Murray

This remarkable, hard-to-find resource is an exhaustive compilation of state laws and local ordinances in effect in 1950 that mandated racial segregation and of pre-Brown-era civil rights legislation.

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Strict Scrutiny

The book, described as nearly 800 pages and single-spaced, contained all the insane laws written after the abolition of slavery and was compared to Thurgood Marshall calling the Bible of the Civil Rights Movement.

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And I think about the work of Fannie Lou Hamer and Fannie Lou Hamer and Polly Murray and Polly Murray wrote this book states laws on race and color which just as Thurgood Marshall called the Bible of...

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The book, described as nearly 800 pages and single-spaced, contained all the insane laws written after the abolition of slavery and was compared to Thurgood Marshall calling the Bible of the Civil Rights Movement.

"

And I think about the work of Fannie Lou Hamer and Fannie Lou Hamer and Polly Murray and Polly Murray wrote this book states laws on race and color which just as Thurgood Marshall called the Bible of the Civil Rights Movement.

Now this book is nearly 800 pages and it's single space. And in this book are all of these insane laws that were written after the abolition of slavery. This was the dystopia.

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