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 : precedent 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 Virginia -- And the court taketh away : Virginia 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.
Summary:
Investigates the history of the Reconstruction era following the Civil War and the efforts to secure newly freed slaves and later generations of African Americans the right to vote. Explores the partisan fighting over the Constitution and legislature--with Constitutional Amendments, Reconstruction Acts, Civil Rights Acts, and Enforcement Acts being needed--to finally secure the vote for black Americans.
Indexed by:
Booklist, 1/1/2020 Kirkus Review, 10/1/2019 Publishers Weekly, 11/11/2019 School Library Connection, 1/2020 School Library Journal Starred, 12/2019
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