2016/01/01 by Audrey Robinson-Nkongola · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Race, History, and American Society #American Constitutional Law and Politics #Law, Rights, and Freedoms #Affect (linguistics) #Law #Political science #Sociology #Communication
paper · pdf · doi:10.7771/2380-176x.7341
published in Against the grain 28(2) (Yale University Press)
openalex publication_date 2016/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Part One of the bibliography is a list of Websites where information concerns laws and cases that greatly impacted African American lives in the nineteenth century. These laws are listed chronologically beginning at slave codes to Plessy v. Ferguson. The slave codes and fugitive slave laws were meant to control the possibility of slave rebellion. As the History Channel stated, black codes and the Jim Crow laws were meant to maintain white supremacy and Southern agricultural society. The Dred Scott decision declared African Americans were not citizens. Plessy made segregation the law of the land. Laws, such as the Civil Rights Acts and Voting Rights Act, demanded that the United States government honor the Constitution, particularly the Fourteenth Amendment -"all persons born or naturalized in the United States" are citizens and " forbids states from denying any person life, liberty or property without due process of law" or "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." 1 Part Two lists Websites of laws that attempted to reserve the centuries of oppression. These laws illustrate the small gains