Article: New vagrancy laws proposed to improve urban spaces
The Independent - London;  November 1, 2002 ;     646 words ...NEW POWERS for police and local councils to deal with beggars, buskers, and rough sleepers - under consideration as part of a new five- year campaign to make Britain's towns and cities more attractive places to live - were unveiled by the Government yesterday. Special "begging courts" where

Article: Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor ...
Michigan Law Review;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... further argues that African Americans benefited from court ... declining status of African Americans during the late nineteenth ... black labor through vagrancy laws, convict leasing ... over the longer run African Americans would have benefited ...

Article: 'I Too Am Eugene'.(Government)(Project studies history and ...
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR);  July 19, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... after Griffon's death. "It was selectively enforced." But even into the 1940s and beyond, African-Americans were excluded by vagrancy laws from remaining in Eugene after dark - resulting first in a "tent city" across the Willamette ...

Article: Jim Crow laws and segregation
Chicago Sun-Times (IL);  February 12, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... occupations, property owning and vagrancy laws under which blacks could be forced ... 1960s. Under the Jim Crow laws, African Americans were given the status of second ... C 4. B 5. C 6. C 7. A 8. C AFRICAN AMERICANS THROUGHOUT HISTORY Benjamin Banneker ...

Article: Behind the Jeffersonian Veneer: the author of The Politically ...
Reason;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... curtailed the rights of freed blacks, as comparable to Northern vagrancy laws--an assertion dismissed as "truly absurd" by David ... University and the author of Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts From Reconstruction ...

Article: African Americans invested less in stocks and funds ...
Marketing to the Emerging Majorities;  August 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...More than six in 10 African Americans (61%) who earn more than ... drop from 2002 when 74% of African Americans earning $50,000 or more ... significant percentage of African Americans out of the stock market in ...

Article: African Americans and the financial services ...
The Black Collegian;  October 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... 1970, there were relatively few African Americans employed in professional positions ... investment banking firms recruited African Americans for the first time. Most of these ... Twenty years later, while some African Americans are routinely courted by the nation ...