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Legislating Racism: The Billion Dollar Congress and the Birth of Jim Crow Thomas Adams Upchurch
Legislating Racism: The Billion Dollar Congress and the Birth of Jim Crow
Thomas Adams Upchurch
The 51st Congress of 1889-91 debated several solutions to the 'race problem'. This work proposes that these congressional debates actually created a climate for the first truly frank national discussion of racial issues in the US.
376 pages, 15 illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 30, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780813123110 |
| Publishers | The University Press of Kentucky |
| Pages | 320 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 26 mm · 644 g |