Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
8-20-2018
SSRN Discipline
Legal Scholarship Network; PSN Subject Matter eJournals; Law & Society eJournals; Law & Society: Public Law eJournals; Legal Anthropology eJournals; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; AARN Subject Matter eJournals; Cultural Anthropology eJournals; Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence & Legal Philosophy eJournals; Political Science Network; Anthropology & Archaeology Research Network; Political Behavior eJournals
Abstract
In June 1903 in the depths of the Jim Crow system the Yale Law Journal published an article by famed New York corporate lawyer John R Dos Passos whose son with the same name later became a famous modernist novelist and socialist The article entitled "The Negro Question" argued that many African American citizens in southern state were not yet ready for voting rights The article defended the restriction of rights in southern states since the end of Reconstruction among AfricanAmericans Dos Passos' article has received virtually no attention in recent years It is important evidence of the intellectual credibility of ideas of segregation and secondclass citizenship at the turn of the twentieth century It reveals the breadth of the entrenched opposition to the ideas of racial equality And it invites further examination of how law reviews in the early twentieth century supported Jim Crow segregation "ƒ
Recommended Citation
Alfred L. Brophy,
The Case for the Repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment in the Yale Law Journal,
(2018).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_working_papers/383