Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-395) and index.
Machine generated contents note: chapter One Road to the Fifteenth Amendment, 1860-1870 -- chapter Two Making of Federal Enforcement Laws, 1870-1872 -- chapter Three Anatomy of Enforcement, 1870-1876 -- chapter Four Hayes Administration and Black Suffrage, 1876-1880 -- chapter Five Survival of a Principle, 1880-1888 -- chapter Six Rise and Fall of Reenforcement, 1888-1891