Securing civil rights
Subtitle: freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the right to bear arms
By: Stephen P. Halbrook
Publisher: Independent Institute
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oakland, CA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781598130386
Notes: Previously published: Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the right to bear arms, 1866-1876. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The civil rights and Freedmen's Bureau Acts and the proposal of the Fourteenth Amendment; title: Congress reacts to southern rejection of the Fourteenth Amendment; title: The southern state constitutional conventions; title: The Freedman's Bureau Act reenacted and the Fourteenth Amendment ratified; title: Toward adoption of the Civil Rights Act of 1871; title: From the Klan trials and hearings through the end of the civil rights revolution; title: The Cruikshank case, from trial to the Supreme Court; title: Unfinished jurisprudence.