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The Ugly Laws by Susan M. Schweik, Susan M. Schweik
The Ugly Laws

Susan M. Schweik, Susan M. Schweik

448 pages digital 2009

6 editions

nonfiction history reference sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, municipal laws targeting "unsightly beggars" sprang up in cities across America. Seeming to criminalize disability and thus offering a visceral example of discrimination, these "ugly laws" have...

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