Nebraska Vagrancy Law (1929)
16-230. Same, Vagrants, Tramps, Gamblers, Swindlers, Prostitutes. XXVII. To provide for the punishment of vagrants, tramps or common street beggars, common prostitutes, habitual disturbers of the peace, pickpockets, gamblers, burglars, thieves, watch stuffers, ball game players, persons who practice any game, trick or device with intent to swindle, persons who abuse their families, and suspicious persons who can give no reasonable account of themselves. (1901 p. 255; Ann. 8582; Comp. 1570; R. S. 1913, 4845; C. S. 1922, 4013.)
- Title
- Nebraska Vagrancy Law (1929)
- Description
- Vagrancy acts passed by the Nebraska state legislature reflected race-neutral legal language that was used to target the poor, people of color, and women.
- Date
- 1929
- Author
- Nebraska. Legislature
- Legal Concept
- Vagrancy
- Temporal Coverage
- Prohibition Era
- Jim Crow Era
- Long Civil Rights Movement
- Interwar Period
- Great Depression and the New Deal
- Exclusion Era
- Allotment and Assimilation Era
- Document Type
- Legal Code
- Document Category
- Primary Source
- Bibliographic Citation
- Compiled Statutes of Nebraska, 1929. Lincoln: State Journal Company, 1930
- Title
- Nebraska Vagrancy Law (1929)
- Description
- Vagrancy acts passed by the Nebraska state legislature reflected race-neutral legal language that was used to target the poor, people of color, and women.
- Date
- 1929
- Author
- Nebraska. Legislature
- Legal Concept
- Vagrancy
- Temporal Coverage
- Prohibition Era
- Jim Crow Era
- Long Civil Rights Movement
- Interwar Period
- Great Depression and the New Deal
- Exclusion Era
- Allotment and Assimilation Era
- Document Type
- Legal Code
- Document Category
- Primary Source
- Bibliographic Citation
- Compiled Statutes of Nebraska, 1929. Lincoln: State Journal Company, 1930