Legislating racism
Subtitle: the billion dollar congress and the birth of Jim Crow
By: Thomas Adams Upchurch.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: United States. Congress; United States. Congress; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century; Minorities -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century; African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 19th century; Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Racism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects
Description: "In Legislating Racism, historian and civil rights scholar Thomas Adams Upchurch offers a pioneering study of the Fifty-first Congress's exhaustive debates and legislative approaches to America's racial problems."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-286) and index.