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

Susan M. Schweik, Susan M. Schweik

448 pages first pub 2009 (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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