As I start to work more to push publishers — and journals — to take account of their contribution to white supremacy in the early twentieth century I want to begin to focus more on law journals. There is Allen Johnson’s article in the Yale Law Journal in 1921, which supported the southern interpretation of the fugitive slave act of 1850. That article has influenced generations of writing on the Act. But the more pernicious is John R. Dos Passos’ article in 1903 in the Yale Law Journal that supports limiting the voting rights of African Americans in the southern states. Sort of odd, or maybe it isn’t, that Dos Passos’ son became a communist (and conservative more in old life).
One might contrast that with Ray Stannard Baker's Negro Suffrage in a Democracy in the 106 Atlantic, 612 (Nov. 1910).