Legislating Racism: The Billion Dollar Congress and the Birth of Jim Crow

Legislating Racism: The Billion Dollar Congress and the Birth of Jim Crow

by ThomasAdamsUpchurch (Author)

Synopsis

The 51st Congress of 1889-91 debated several solutions to the 'race problem'. This work proposes that these congressional debates actually created a climate for the first truly frank national discussion of racial issues in the US.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 31 Jul 2004

ISBN 10: 0813123119
ISBN 13: 9780813123110