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A Rift in the Clouds: Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900-1910
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Item Description...
Product Description
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 helped to bring Reconstruction to an end in their states, asserted that the amendments not only established black equality, but authorized the government to protect blacks. Although their rulings won few immediate gains for blacks and were overturned by the Supreme Court, their legal arguments would be resurrected, and meet with greater success, over half a century later during the civil rights movement.
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Item Specifications...
Pages 169
Dimensions: Length: 9.1" Width: 5.9" Height: 0.8"
Weight: 1.05 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
ISBN 1557288496
EAN 9781557288493
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 | Insightful and Inspiring Sep 7, 2007 |
| This was a truly insightful and inspiring read. Highly informative and well-written as it reveals the strength and challenges of 3 unsung heroes of the civil rights movement. Speer, Jones and Treiber were no doubt pioneers of righteousness in a society that at the time lacked basic principles of virtue and morality. I highly recommend this book to all students of American and particularly Civil Rights history. I honestly can't wait for the author's next book! | | | Write your own review about A Rift in the Clouds: Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900-1910
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