In the Matter of Color

Higginbotham, A Leon

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Author
Higginbotham, A Leon
Publish Date
01/01/1900
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
OXFORD
Subtitle
Race and the American Legal Process 1: the Colonial Period
Number of Pages
512
Edition
4TH
ISBN-10
0195027450
ISBN-13
9780195027457
SKU
9780195027457

Description

I knew there was an indisputable nexus between the dark shadow of repression under which, historically, most American blacks have lived and the rioting occurring within ten blocks of the White House. Why, I thought to myself, in the land of the free and the home of the brave, had even brave blacks so often failed to get free? Why had that very legal process that had been devised to protect the rights of individuals against the will of the government and the whim of the majority been often employed so malevolently against blacks?