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- Title: Black Resistance/White Law
- Author : Mary Frances Berry
- Release Date : January 28, 1994
- Genre: Political Science,Books,Politics & Current Events,Professional & Technical,Law,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1268 KB
Description
How the government has used the Constitution to deny black Americans their legal rights
From the arrival of the first twenty slaves in Jamestown to the Howard Beach Incident of 1986, Yusef Hawkins, and Rodney King, federal law enforcement has pleaded lack of authority against white violence while endorsing surveillance of black rebels and using “constitutional” military force against them. In this groundbreaking study, 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.