Loving Day: How interracial marriage became legal in the U.S. - NPR
WEBJun 12, 2021 · The Lovings had committed what Virginia called unlawful cohabitation. Their marriage was deemed illegal because Mildred was Black and Native American; and Richard was white.
Sotomayor: It's a mistake to believe 'the law is clear' in ... - Yahoo
WEBJan 25, 2022 · Justice Sonia Sotomayor says "the biggest misconception people have" when Supreme Court rulings are weighed and handed down is that "the law is clear" to begin with."Most people think of the...
Lawyers by Race & Ethnicity - American Bar Association
WEBWhite men and women are still overrepresented in the legal profession compared with their presence in the overall U.S. population. In 2020, 86% of all lawyers were non-Hispanic whites, a decline from 89% a decade ago.
There’s racial bias in our police systems. Here’s the overwhelming ...
WEBJun 10, 2020 · A survey of data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission in 2017 found that when black men and white men commit the same crime, black men on average receive a sentence almost 20 percent longer. The...
Racial covenants, still on the books in virtually every state ... - NPR
WEBNov 17, 2021 · Racial covenants made it illegal for Black people to live in white neighborhoods. Now they're illegal, but you might still have one on your home's deed. And they're hard to remove.
Black Americans and the Law
WEBThis timeline provides an overview of some of these laws, beginning with the first known case marking the legal difference between Africans and Europeans in 1640 in Virginia, and continuing with laws recently introduced in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans.
Bacon's Rebellion: Inventing Black and White - Facing History …
WEBAug 2, 2016 · After Bacon’s Rebellion, Virginia’s lawmakers began to make legal distinctions between “white” and “black” inhabitants. By permanently enslaving Virginians of African descent and giving poor white indentured servants and farmers some new rights and status, they hoped to separate the two groups and make it less likely that they would ...
Constitutional Rights in Black and White: A Video Casebook
WEBAlexandra Natapoff, Constitutional Rights in Black and White: A Video Casebook (2021). Type. Other. Categories. Constitutional Law. Sub-Categories. Fifth Amendment. Fourth Amendment. Other Amendments.
Black-letter law - Wikipedia
WEBIn common law legal systems, black-letter law refers to well-established legal rules that are no longer subject to reasonable dispute. [1] Black-letter law can be contrasted with legal theory or unsettled legal issues.
Jim Crow Laws | American Experience | Official Site | PBS
WEBThe segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South.