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A Rift in the Clouds: Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900-1910
Brent J. Aucoin
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Description for A Rift in the Clouds: Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900-1910
Hardcover. Chronicles the efforts of three white southern federal judges to protect the civil rights of African Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century, when few in the American legal community were willing to do so. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3 images, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JJC; JFFJ; JFSL; LNAA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
A Rift in the Clouds chronicles the efforts of three white southern federal judges to protect the civil rights of African Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century, when few in the American legal community were willing to do so. Jacob Treiber of Arkansas, Emory Speer of Georgia, and Thomas Goode Jones of Alabama challenged the Supreme Court's reading of the Reconstruction amendments that were passed in an attempt to make disfranchised and exploited African Americans equal citizens of the United States. These unpopular white southerners, two of whom who had served in the Confederate Army and had themselves ... Read more
A Rift in the Clouds chronicles the efforts of three white southern federal judges to protect the civil rights of African Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century, when few in the American legal community were willing to do so. Jacob Treiber of Arkansas, Emory Speer of Georgia, and Thomas Goode Jones of Alabama challenged the Supreme Court's reading of the Reconstruction amendments that were passed in an attempt to make disfranchised and exploited African Americans equal citizens of the United States. These unpopular white southerners, two of whom who had served in the Confederate Army and had themselves ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557288493
SKU
V9781557288493
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About Brent J. Aucoin
Brent J. Aucoin is an associate professor of history at Southeastern College at Wake Forest.
Reviews for A Rift in the Clouds: Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900-1910
Aucoin provides excellent information on three southerners generally overlooked by history. They need to be considered by all historians, those interested in the South as well as those looking at the law and the Constitution and those concerned with how reform happens in America." - Christopher Waldrep, San Francisco State University, and author of Roots of Disorder: Race and Criminal ... Read more