Race, Labor, and the Thirteenth Amendment in the 1940s Department of Justice

12 Pages Posted: 4 Sep 2015

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Risa L. Goluboff

University of Virginia School of Law

Date Written: September 2, 2015

Abstract

A number of articles for this symposium concern the labor pedigree of the Thirteenth Amendment. Several others discuss the Amendment's relationship to race-based civil rights. That separate articles address these two issues is unsurprising. In contemporary legal culture, labor questions and race questions often occupy separate spheres. But the history I explore in this article predates that division; it shows how, at least at one critical moment in time, the Thirteenth Amendment defied the current dichotomy between labor issues and race-based civil rights.

Suggested Citation

Goluboff, Risa L., Race, Labor, and the Thirteenth Amendment in the 1940s Department of Justice (September 2, 2015). University of Toledo Law Review, Vol. #38, No. 883, 2007, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2654777

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