rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: On account of race
    sub title: the Supreme Court, white supremacy, and the ravaging of African American voting rights
  name:
    name part: Goldstone, Lawrence
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First hardcover edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 283 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Beginning in 1876, the Court systematically dismantled both the equal protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment, at least for African-Americans, and what seemed to be the guarantee of the right to vote in the Fifteenth. And so, of the more than 500,000 African-Americans who had registered to vote across the South, the vast majority former slaves, by 1906, less than ten percent remained. Many of those were terrified to go the polls, lest they be beaten, murdered or have their homes burned to the ground. None of this was done in the shadows. Those determined to wrest the vote from black Americans could not have been more boastful in either intent or execution. But the Court chose to ignore the obvious and wrote decisions at odds with the Constitution, preferring to instead reinforce the racial stereotypes of the day. "On Account of Race" tells the story of an American tragedy, the only occasion in American history in which a group of citizens who had been granted the right to vote then had it stripped away. Even more unjust was that this theft of voting rights was done with full approval, even the sponsorship, of the United States Supreme Court.
  table of contents: Prologue: overthrow -- Who Votes? -- Two Amendments ... -- Power in black and white: the Klan -- ... and a third: equal rights comes to the ballot box -- Fragile illusion -- Any way you slice it: the Slaughter-House cases -- Equality by law: the Civil Rights Act of 1875 -- Uncertainty of language: United States v. Reese -- Rutherfraud ascends, but not equal rights -- Slight case of murder: the strange journey of Strauder v. West Virginia -- Tightening the knot: Virginia v. Rives -- Strangling the Constitution: the Civil Rights cases -- Curious incident of the Chinese laundry and equal protection -- Mississippi leads the South -- First test: Mills v. Green -- Peer review: Williams v. Mississippi -- Refining redemption -- Forging an attack -- Window slams shut: Giles v Harris -- Epilogue: stolen justice.
  note: Lawrence Goldstone.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Race discrimination
    topic: Law and legislation
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Race discrimination
    topic: Law and legislation
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Suffrage
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Suffrage
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: American Government
    topic: Judicial Branch
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Civil Rights
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Social History
  classification: KF4755 .G65 2020
  classification: 342.7308/73
  identifier: 9781640093928
  identifier: 1640093923
  identifier: 9781640093935
  identifier: 2019037734
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200107
    record change date: 20211018101400.0
    record identifier: in00004375295