A Rift in the Clouds: Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900-1910
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (717 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1557288496 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 Justice in the American South, 18181889 Aucoin contributes to our understanding of how courageous, visionary people at the local level interpreted the Constitution. It’s part of the diversity of opinions in legal thought which held promise even if it did not develop as we would have liked.” Alfred L. Aucoin provides excellent information on three southerners generally overlooked by history. It’s a part of popular constitutionalism.
Insightful and Inspiring 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
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.. 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 aut