Black resistance, white law : a history of constitutional racism in America
Mary Frances Berry (Author)
Unavailable for a decade, now completely updated to the 1990s, this landmark book is a powerful indictment of federal use of the Constitution to maintain a racist status quo. Constitutional scholar Mary Frances Berry analyzes the reasons why millions of African Americans whose lives have improved enormously, both socially and economically, are still at risk of police abuse and largely unprotected from bias crimes. From the arrival of the first twenty slaves in Jamestown
eBook, English, 1994
A. Lane, Penguin Press, New York, 1994