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The Supreme Court's retreat from Reconstruction : a distortion of constitutional jurisprudence
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- Creator
- Frank J. Scaturro
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000
- Physical Details
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- xii, 305 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780313311055, 9798216021636, 0313002274, 9780313002274, 0313311056
- OCLC
- ocm50321203, ocm41173523, ocm70757021, on1435636021
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-289) and index.
- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Brief Overview of Reconstruction and the Nation's Retreat -- 3. The Supreme Court's Retreat from Reconstruction. A. Prelude to Retreat. B. The Court's Decisions during the 1870s. C. The Jury Discrimination Cases: Exception to the Retreat. D. The Fourteenth Amendment State Action Doctrine: United States v. Harris, the Civil Rights Cases, and Baldwin v. Franks. E. The Triumph of Segregation. F. Retreat from the Fifteenth Amendment -- 4. The Court's Reconsideration of Civil Rights during the Twentieth Century. A. The White Primary. B. Brown v. Board of Education and School Segregation. C. The Reformulation of Constitutional Jurisprudence Addressing Civil Rights Legislation -- 5. Conclusion