Race and the court in the Progressive era

From: Vanderbilt Law Review | Date: May 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Michael J. Klarman* I. INTRODUCTION

In the second decade of the twentieth century, the Supreme Court decided four prominent (groups of) cases involving race. On each occasion, the civil rights claim won in some significant sense. One set of cases involved so-called peonage legislation-law s that coerced (primarily) black labor. In Bailey v. Alabama,1 the Court invalidated under the federal Peonage Act of 18672 and the Thirteenth Amendment an Alabama law making it a crime to enter, with fraudulent intent, into a labor contract that provided for advance payment of wages; the law made breach of ...

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