Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From Total Racial Oppression to Shades of Freedom -- The Scope of This Volume -- "A Black Man Did It": Commonalities of Perception -- "It's a Long Road" -- The Role of the Supreme Court -- The Road Ahead: Still Many "Miles to Go" -- 1:   My Forty-Year Journey in Formulating the Precepts -- 2:   The Precept of Inferiority -- The Most Enduring Precept -- The Object of Hate -- The Stages of Development of the Precept of Inferiority -- 3:   The Ancestry of Inferiority (1619-1662) -- Last Among Equals -- Blackness As Sin -- 4:   The Ideology of Inferiority (1662-1830) -- Determining Status by Sex, Marriage, and Racial "Purity" -- Redeeming the "Inferior" Through Religion and Civilization? -- Punishment, Murder, Malice, and Inferiority -- 5:   The Politics of Inferiority (1830-1865) -- Abolition and Uncle Tom: Political Posturing Without Challenging Notions of Inferiority -- Dred Scott v. Sandford: The Legal Defense of Inferiority -- 6:   The Constitutional Language of Slavery: From Non-disclosure to Abolition, 1787-1866 -- The Framers' Intentional Non-disclosure of Their Legitimization of Slavery and Their Implementation of the Precept of Black Inferiority -- Conflicting Assessments of a Constitution that Sanctioned Slavery -- The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment -- The Civil Rights Act of 1866 -- 7:   The Dream of Freedom and Its Demise -- Had "The long sickness … come to end"? -- The One Pervading Purpose -- The Beginning of the Judicial Betrayal of African Americans -- The Political Betrayal: The 1877 Hayes-Tilden Election Compromise -- 8:   The Supreme Court's Sanction of Racial Hatred: The 1883 Civil Rights Cases -- The Inferiority Precept and Public Accommodations.

The Impact of the Precept of Inferiority in the Supreme Court's Review -- "Ain't I a Woman?" -- Sallie Robinson's Treatment as an Inferior -- The Supreme Court's Implicit Acceptance of the Precept of Inferiority -- 9:   The Supreme Court's Legitimization of Racism: Plessy v. Ferguson: A Case Wrongly Decided -- A Circular Journey -- Should Someone Seven-eighths White Be Sent to Jail for Sitting in the "Whites Only" Compartment? -- The Majority's Legitimization of Racism -- The Reasonableness of Racism -- Was the "Underlying Fallacy" ofPlessy's Argument Solely in the Mind-Set of African Americans, Perceiving Themselves as Inferior? -- Justice John Marshall Harlan's Dissent: Was It an Omniscient Egalitarian Pronouncement or Was It a Muted Racist's Statement? -- The Consequences of the "Separate But Equal" Doctrine -- 10:   Too Inferior To Be Their Neighbor -- 11:   Unequal Justice in the State Criminal Justice System -- Race Matters -- Racism in the Courts as Symptoms, Signals, and Symbols of Racism in the Broader Society -- Racism in the Courtroom as a Symptom of Societal Racism -- Racism in the Courtroom as a Signal of Societal Racism -- Racism in the Courtroom as Cultural Symbolism -- Apartheid in the Courthouse -- Segregated Spectator Seating -- The Barriers of Standing -- Whites Only Courthouse Cafeterias: One Court* s View of "Separate But Equal' as a Step Forward -- Race-Segregated Restrooms -- Overt Discrimination by Judges in the Courtroom -- Failure to Accord Black Witnesses the Civilities Customarily Accorded to White Witnesses -- The Denial of Standing to a Lawyer Seeking to Assert His Client* s Right to Be Addressed with the Civilities Accorded to Whites -- Examples of Racially Discriminatory Courtroom Treatment Resting on Derogatory Myths About African Americans as a People -- Racially Biased Statements by Counsel.

Prosecutorial Appeals to Fear of Violence by African Americans -- Appeals to the Stereotype of African Americans as Prone to Rape White Women -- Claims of African-American Race Hatred Toward Whites -- Racist Characterizations of African Americans-from "Pickaninny" to "Nigger" -- Judicial Conduct -- 12:   Limiting the Seeds of Race Hatred: The Charles Evans Hughes Supreme Court Era (1930-1941) -- Civil Rights for African Americans in the 1930s -- Segregation and the Congressman: "It didn't make a damn bit of difference who I was" -- Race Discrimination at the Citadel of Justice -- "The Prejudices Which Judges Share with Their Fellow-Men" -- The Gulf Between Two Justices -- Charles Evans Hughes -- James C. McReynolds -- The Hughes Court's Diminution of the Inferiority Precept Under Law -- The Criminal Justice Process -- Education -- The Right to Vote -- The Hughes Court in Retrospect -- 13:   Voting Rights, Pluralism, and Political Power -- "A Page of History"-1832-1992 -- The Antebellum Period: Pennsylvania and the Northern Responses -- The Reconstruction Era -- Post-Reconstruction North Carolina History -- The Persistence of Significant Political Racism in North Carolina in the Last Four Decades -- The Return of Race-Baiting Campaigns -- The Aftermath of the Voting Rights Act -- North Carolina's Racial Politics Disproportionately Harm African Americans -- Epilogue -- Appendix: The Ten Precepts of American Slavery Jurisprudence -- The Problem of Categorization: Precept, Commandment, or Declaration -- Why Ten Precepts? -- The Interrelationships of the Precepts -- The First Precept: Inferiority -- The Second Precept: Property -- The Third Precept: Powerlessness -- Problems of Formulation -- The Post-Civil War Impact of the Precepts -- The Quest for Universal Human Rights -- Articles published by A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. -- Notes -- Index.

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