Equality by Statute : : Legal Controls Over Group Discrimination / / Morroe Berger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Berger, Morroe,
• TeilnehmendeR: Maciver, Robert M.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1952]; ©1952
• Year of Publication: 1952
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Introduction --; I. Civil Rights Today and During the Reconstruction Era --; II. The Supreme Court, 1868–1937: Buttressing the Caste Order --; III. The Supreme Court, 1937–1950: Undermining the Caste Order --; IV. The New York State Law Against Discrimination: Operation and Administration --; V. Law and the Control of Prejudice and Discrimination --; Notes --; Bibliography --; List of Cases --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231881708; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/berg91030
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Morroe Berger.

Describes and evaluates some of the legal developments from the Reconstruction period to the 1950s on both federal and state levels, and attempts to formulate some general principles on the relation between law and custom, public opinion and the mores, and to evaluate the efficacy of law as a means of controlling prejudice and discrimination.