For more than a generation, historians and legal scholars have documented inequalities at the heart of American law and daily life and exposed inconsistencies i

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Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920 - of men forced to jump from moving cars when trainmen refused to stop, of women emotionally wrecked from the trauma

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