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Award-winning constitutional law expert and historian, Lawrence Goldstone examines case-based evidence to reveal the court's longstanding support for white supremacy (often under the guise of "states rights") and how that bias has allowed the court to solidify its position as arguably the most powerful branch of the federal government. 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...
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- Author
- Lawrence Goldstone
- Publisher
- Counterpoint LLC
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781640093935
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Law
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