Inherently unequal : the betrayal of equal rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903 / Lawrence Goldstone.
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 regar...
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| Other title: | Brian E. Lebowitz Collection of 20th Century Jewish American Literature. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Donor: | Lebowitz copy is gift of Brian E. Lebowitz. |
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Walker & Company,
©2011.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Construction and reconstruction : two great experiments
- Beyond party or politics : the capitalists ascend
- Another reconstruction : the Lincoln Court
- Siege : Congress counterattacks
- Bad science and big money
- Corporate presidency : Ulysses Grant and the Court
- Equality frays : Cruikshank and Reese
- 1876 : Justice Bradley disposes
- A jury of one's peers : Strauder and Rives
- Deconstruction : the civil rights cases
- Floodgates : the rebirth of white rule
- Blurring the boundaries : the expansion of due process
- Confluence : Plessy v. Ferguson
- One man, no vote : Williams v. Mississippi
- Mr. Justice Holmes concurs
- Movement.