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Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 283 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 vote across the South, the vast majority former slaves, by 1906, less than ten percent remained. Many of those were terrified to go the polls, lest they...
Author
Publisher
Walker & Company
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 242 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Between 1865 and 1870, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the U.S., the 14th conferred citizenship and equal protection under the law to all Americans, white or black, and the 15th gave black American males the right to vote. In 1875 the far reaching Civil Rights Act granted all Americans regardless of color "the full and equal enjoyment" of public conveyances and places of amusement. Yet eight years later, in 1883, the Supreme Court, by an 8-1...
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the events surrounding the 1803 legal decision regarding judicial review that ultimately gave the Supreme Court the right to determine how the Constitution and its laws are interpreted.
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