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Welcoming ruin : the Civil Rights Act of 1875
- Title
- Welcoming ruin : the Civil Rights Act of 1875 / by Alan Friedlander, Richard Allan Gerber.
- Author
- Friedlander, Alan
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Gerber, Richard A.
- Description
- vi, 689 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "This Civil Rights Act of March 1, 1875 banned racial discrimination in public accommodations. This first full study demonstrates that the Republicans enacted it believed that civil equality under the law would produce social order in the former rebel South."--
- Series Statement
- Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 133
- Uniform Title
- Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 133.
- Subjects
- Civil rights
- African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc
- United States
- African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc > History > 19th century
- United States > Politics and government > 1869-1877
- Civil rights > United States > History > 19th century
- 1800-1899
- United States Civil Rights Act of 1875
- Politics and government
- History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue -- A muster of moths : the Forty-third Congress of the United States -- Charge at New Market Heights : debate in the House of Representatives -- Purblind child of darkness : Sumner's civil rights bill passes the Senate -- The deadest corpse : no exit in the House -- Horace Redfield's journey : the long hot summer of 1874 -- The shirt of Nessus : elections in Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia -- Quintessence of abominations : elections in Tennessee and Alabama -- Carry the news to Hiram : elections in Florida and Louisiana -- Greeley's ghost : elections in Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, Maryland -- Taliaferro's ghost : border states and the north; obituary -- Suffer the little white children : vox populi reconsidered -- If ruin comes from this : a House decided -- Dear Tom's deception : birth of the civil rights act -- De pervisions, josiar : civil rights dawn -- Epilogue : then and now.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-883
- ISBN
- 9789004359147
- 9004359141
- 9789004384071 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018047541
- OCLC
- 1056201787
- Author
- Friedlander, Alan, author.
- Title
- Welcoming ruin : the Civil Rights Act of 1875 / by Alan Friedlander, Richard Allan Gerber.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 133Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 133.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Added Author
- Gerber, Richard A., author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-883