Civil rights in the shadow of slavery : the constitution, common law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1866
Rutherglen, GeorgeAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2013.
The author begins with the birth of civil rights - the circumstances, acts and legacy of the 39th Congress, constitutional origins, passage and structure of the Act, moves through the Fourteenth Amendment and into restrictive interpretations and quiescent years, and finishes with a chapter on discerning the future from the past and the contemporary significance of the Act.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
The author begins with the birth of civil rights - the circumstances, acts and legacy of the 39th Congress, constitutional origins, passage and structure of the Act, moves through the Fourteenth Amendment and into restrictive interpretations and quiescent years, and finishes with a chapter on discerning the future from the past and the contemporary significance of the Act.
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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.
United States.
Civil rights
Slavery
Law - U.S.
Law, Politics & Government
Constitutional Law - U.S.