Law and society in the south
Subtitle: a history of North Carolina court cases
By: John Wertheimer.
Series: New directions in southern history
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813125350
Subjects: Law -- Social aspects -- North Carolina -- History; Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- North Carolina -- History; African-Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- North Carolina -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: White couples and mulatto babies : Jacksonian age divorce and democratization; title: A former slave and his white wife during reconstruction : the case of Pinkney and Sarah Ross; title: De jure housing segregation in progressive era Winston-Salem : the case of William Darnell; title: Evolution and defamation : the case of Reverend J.R. Pentuff; title: Escape of the match-strikers : the Samarcand arson case of 1931; title: Padlocking Greenwich Village : urbanization and public nuisance law; title: Reading and the right to vote: James R. Walker Jr. and North Carolina's literacy test; title: Native Americans and school desegregation : the Chavis case in Robeson.