Christopher Waldrep

Race and National Power

A Sourcebook of Black Civil Rights from 1862 to 1954

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Produktbeschreibung

Race and National Power: A Sourcebook of Black Civil Rights from 1862 to 1954 gathers together a collection of primary documents on the history of law and civil rights, specifically in regard to race. The sources covered include key Supreme Court decisions, opinions from other courts, and texts written by ordinary people ¿ the victims and perpetrators of racism and the lawmakers who wrote the statutes the courts must interpret. With helpful headnotes and introductions, Race and National Power: A Sourcebook of Black Civil Rights from 1862 to 1954 is the perfect resource for anyone studying legal history or race in America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9780415802802
• ISBN-10: 0415802806
• Artikelnr.: 35937804

Autorenporträt

Christopher Waldrep is Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Chair of American History at San Francisco State University. He is author of Lynching in America: A History in Documents.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Introduction Part I: The Civil War Origins of Civil Rights 2.
The Republicans Debate Civil Rights 3. The Republicans Enforce Their Civil
Rights Policy 4. White and Black Southerners React to Emancipation 5.
Congress Debates Civil Rights Legislation Part II: Civil Rights as a Lost
Opportunity? 6. Enforcing Civil Rights: Sovereign Will and Public Sentiment
7. Liberal Republicans 8. Social Equality 9. President Hayes and the End of
Reconstruction 10. The Supreme Court 11. James G. Blaine Reflects on
Reconstruction Part III: The Black Struggle for Civil Rights 12. African
Americans Confront Public Sentiment with-and without-Constitutional Rights
13. Segregation 14. Voting Rights 15. Jury Discrimination 16. African
Americans as Worthy Citizens Part IV: The Progressives 17. The Progressive
State 18. Progressive Journalism 19. Progressive Dissatisfaction with Law
20. Using the Law against Racism 21. The Age of Theodore Roosevelt 22.
Criminal Procedure 23. Police Power and Segregation Part V: The Rise of
Mass Democracy 24. America as an "Enormous Community" 25. The Art and
Practice of Mobilizing Public Opinion: Gandhi 26. The Parker Nomination 27.
The Scottsboro Boys 28. The NAACP Lobbies for a Law against Lynching 29.
The Constitutional Revolution 30. Struggle and Conflict are Present in All
Phases of Life 31. Epilogue