Reconstruction and Black Suffrage: Losing the Vote in Reese and Cruikshank
(Part of the Landmark Law Cases and American Society Series)
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On Easter Sunday in 1873, more than one hundred black men were gunned down in Grant Parish, Louisiana, for daring to assert their right to vote. Several months earlier, in Lexington, Kentucky, another black man was denied the right to vote for simply failing to pay a poll tax. Both events typified the intense opposition to the federal guarantee of black voting rights. Both events led to landmark Supreme Court decisions. And, as Robert Goldman shows,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0700610693
ISBN13:9780700610693
Release Date:February 2001
Publisher:University Press of Kansas
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.52 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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