Previously published: Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the right to bear arms, 1866-1876. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c1998. Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index.
Contents:
The civil rights and Freedmen's Bureau Acts and the proposal of the Fourteenth Amendment -- Congress reacts to southern rejection of the Fourteenth Amendment -- The southern state constitutional conventions -- The Freedman's Bureau Act reenacted and the Fourteenth Amendment ratified -- Toward adoption of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 -- From the Klan trials and hearings through the end of the civil rights revolution -- The Cruikshank case, from trial to the Supreme Court -- Unfinished jurisprudence.
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