Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903 - Couverture rigide

Goldstone, Lawrence

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0802717926 ISBN 13 : 9780802717924

Editeur : Walker & Co, 2011

Synopsis

A potent and original examination of how the Supreme Court subverted justice and empowered the Jim Crow era.

In the following years following the Civil War, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery; the 14th conferred citizenship and equal protection under the law to white and black; and the 15th gave black American males the right to vote. In 1875, the most comprehensive civil rights legislation in the nation's history granted all Americans "the full and equal enjoyment" of public accomodations. Just eight years later, the Supreme Court, by an 8-1 vote, overturned the Civil Rights Act as unconstitutional and, in the process, disemboweled the equal protection provisions of the 14th Amendment. Using court records and accounts of the period, Lawrence Goldstone chronicles how "by the dawn of the 20th century the U.S. had become the nation of Jim Crow laws, quasi-slavery, and precisely the same two-tiered system of justice that had existed in the slave era."

The very human story of how and why this happened make Inherently Unequal as important as it is provocative. Examining both celebrated decisions like Plessy v. Ferguson and those often overlooked, Goldstone demonstrates how the Supreme Court turned a blind eye to the obvious reality of racism, defending instead the business establishment and status quo--thereby legalizing the brutal prejudice that came to definite the Jim Crow era.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lawrence Goldstone is the author of the thriller The Anatomy of Deception and several works of history, including Dark Bargain, The Activist, and Out of the Flames. He lives in Westport, Connecticut.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Walker & Co
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802717926
• ISBN 13: 9780802717924
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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