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  title info:
    title: Promises to keep
    sub title: African Americans and the constitutional order, 1776 to the present
  name:
    name part: Nieman, Donald G.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: Second edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: This book examines the influence of race in the development of the U.S. Constitution and argues that African Americans have had a powerful influence creating constitutional rights. It examines the debate over slavery in the Revolutionary Era and at the Constitutional Convention, how antislavery advocates, black and white, created constitutional ideas that promoted equality, and their role in ending slavery, securing adoption of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, and establishing civil rights protections during Reconstruction. By 1900, southern whites had reversed most of these changes through disfranchisement, segregation and sharecropping, but African Americans continued to resist. Through organizations like the National Association for the Advancement for Colored People, they challenged segregation, discriminatory criminal justice, lynching and disfranchisement. After World War II, the civil rights movement triumphed through legal victories (e.g., Brown v. Board of Education), legislation (the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act), and mass protest. Civil rights advocates won victories in the 1970s and 1980s challenging institutionalized racism, even though conservative political strength grew. However, from the 1980s to the 2010s, a conservative Supreme Court invoked color-blind constitutional principles to weaken civil rights protections. Continued economic disparities between blacks and whites as well as the war of drugs and mass incarceration undermined gains made by the civil rights movement, although new social movements like Black Lives Matter continued the quest for equal justice.
  table of contents: With liberty for some : the old constitution and African American rights, 1776-1846 -- Law and liberty, 1830-1860 -- The national commitment to civil equality, 1861-1870 -- Equality deferred, 1870-1900 -- The age of segregation, 1900-1950 -- The civil rights movement and American law, 1950-1969 -- The elusive quest for equality, 1969-1989 -- The color-blind challenge to civil rights, 1990-present.
  note: Donald G. Nieman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Civil rights
  subject:
    topic: Civil rights movements
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Civil rights
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  classification: E185.61 .N5 2020
  classification: 323.1196/073
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Organization of American Historians bicentennial essays on the Bill of Rights
  identifier: 9780190071639
  identifier: 019007163X
  identifier: 9780190071646
  identifier: 0190071648
  identifier: 9780190071660
  identifier: 9780190071653
  identifier: 9780190071677
  identifier: 2019031629
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190726
    record change date: 20200729073130.0
    record identifier: in00004167038