Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-214) and index.
1. The Civil Rights and Freedmen's Bureau Acts and the Proposal of the Fourteenth Amendment -- 2. Congress Reacts to Southern Rejection of the Fourteenth Amendment -- 3. The Southern State Constitutional Conventions -- 4. The Freedmen's Bureau Act Reenacted and the Fourteenth Amendment Ratified -- 5. Toward Adoption of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 -- 6. From the Klan Trials and Hearings through the End of the Civil Rights Revolution -- 7. The Cruikshank Case, from Trial to the Supreme Court -- 8. Unfinished Jurisprudence