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Welcoming Ruin: The Civil Rights Act of 1875

Welcoming Ruin: The Civil Rights Act of 1875

Friedlander, Alan
Gerber, Richard Allan

Paperback

Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

Black American StudiesCivil War Period (1850-1877)General Sociology

ISBN10: 1642590746
ISBN13: 9781642590746
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: Feb 25 2020
Pages: 692
Weight: 2.00
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

The Civil Rights Act of 1875, enacted March 1, 1875, banned racial discrimination in public accommodations--hotels, public conveyances, and places of public amusement. In 1883 the US Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional, ushering in generations of segregation until 1964. This first full-length study of the Act covers the years of debates in Congress and some forty state studies of the midterm elections of 1874 in which many supporting Republicans lost their seats. They returned to pass the Act in the short session of Congress. This book utilizes an army of primary sources from unpublished manuscripts, rare newspaper accounts, memoir materials, and official documents to demonstrate that Republicans were motivated primarily by an ideology that civil equality would produce social order in the defeated southern states.

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