Stolen justice the struggle for African American voting rights
"Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction era raised a new question to those in power in the US: Should African Americans, so many of them former slaves, be granted the right to vote? In a bitter partisan fight over the legislature and Constitution, the answer eventually became yes, though o...
| Main Author: | Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947- (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (writer of foreword.) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scholastic Focus,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: overthrow
- Who votes?
- Hodgepodge
- Two amendments
- ...and a third: equal rights comes to the ballot box
- Power in black and white: the klan
- To the court
- Any way you slice it: the slaughter-house cases
- Interlude: precendent and politics
- Equality by law: the Civil Rights Act of 1875
- The uncertainty of language: United States v. Reese
- Rutherfraud ascends, but not equal rights
- The court giveth...: Strauder v. West Virgina
- ...and the court taketh away: Virigina v. Rives
- Bad science and big money
- Strangling the constitution: the civil rights cases
- The window cracks open: the curious incident of the Chinese laundry and equal protection
- Corrupt redemption: the 1890 Mississippi constitution
- The crusader: Williams v. Mississippi
- The window slams shut: Giles v. Harris
- Epilogue: stolen justice.