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Legislating racism

by Thomas Adams Upchurch · 2004

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"In Legislating Racism, historian and civil rights scholar Thomas Adams Upchurch offers a pioneering study of the Fifty-first Congress's exhaustive debates and legislative approaches to America's racial problems."—BOOK JACKET.

Subject
historyhistoryMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
Themes
raceraceMore like thisLess of thisAfrican AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of thiscivil rightscivil rightsMore like thisLess of this
Setting
19th century19th centuryMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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