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Civil rights in the shadow of slavery : the constitution, common law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rutherglen, George
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford [UK] ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Civil rights > United States.
Slavery > Law and legislation > United States.
United States. > Civil Rights Act of 1866.
United States. > Constitution. > 14th Amendment.
Table of Contents:
  • The birth of civil rights : the circumstances, acts, and legacy of the 39th congress
  • Citizenship, slavery, and the constitutional origins of the act
  • Reconceiving civil rights : the passage and structure of the act
  • The high tide of reconstruction : the Fourteenth Amendment and later legislation
  • Restrictive interpretations and the end of reconstruction
  • The verdict of quiescent years : aliens, property, and state action
  • Resurrecting civil rights: reading an old act for a new era
  • Reaffirming the revived act : extension, reconsideration, and recodification
  • Discerning the future from the past : the contemporary significance of the act.