On account of race : the Supreme Court, white supremacy, and the ravaging of African American voting rights /
Beginning in 1876, the Court systematically dismantled both the equal protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment, at least for African-Americans, and what seemed to be the guarantee of the right to vote in the Fifteenth. And so, of the more than 500,000 African-Americans who had registered to...
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Berkeley, California :
Counterpoint,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: overthrow
- Who Votes?
- Two Amendments ...
- Power in black and white: the Klan
- ... and a third: equal rights comes to the ballot box
- Fragile illusion
- Any way you slice it: the Slaughter-House cases
- Equality by law: the Civil Rights Act of 1875
- Uncertainty of language: United States v. Reese
- Rutherfraud ascends, but not equal rights
- Slight case of murder: the strange journey of Strauder v. West Virginia
- Tightening the knot: Virginia v. Rives
- Strangling the Constitution: the Civil Rights cases
- Curious incident of the Chinese laundry and equal protection
- Mississippi leads the South
- First test: Mills v. Green
- Peer review: Williams v. Mississippi
- Refining redemption
- Forging an attack
- Window slams shut: Giles v Harris
- Epilogue: stolen justice.