Welcoming ruin : the Civil Rights Act of 1875 / by Alan Friedlander, Richard Allan Gerber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedlander, Alan, author.

Gerber, Richard A., author.

Series:

Studies in Critical Social Sciences 133.

Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 133

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights--United States--History--19th century.

Civil rights.

African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--History--19th century.

African Americans.

United States--Politics and government--1869-1877.

United States.

United States. Civil Rights Act of 1875.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (689 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.

Summary:

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 U.S. 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 This book utilizes an army of primary sources from unpublished manuscripts, rare newspaper accounts, memoir materials and official documents to demonstrate that Republicans were motivated primarily by an ideology that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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

List of Illustrations and Maps

Acknowledgements

Prologue

A Muster of Moths: The Forty-Third Congress of the United States

Charge at New Market Heights: Debate in the House of Representatives

Purblind Child of Darkness: Sumner’s Civil Rights Bill Passes the Senate

The Deadest Corpse: No Exit in the House

Horace Redfield’s Journey: The Long Hot Summer of 1874

The Shirt of Nessus: Elections in Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia

Quintessence of Abominations: Elections in Tennessee and Alabama

Carry the News to Hiram: Elections in Florida and Louisiana

Greeley’s Ghost: Elections in Arkansas, Texas, Missouri and Maryland

Taliaferro’s Ghost: Border States and the North; Obituary

Suffer the Little White Children: Vox Populi Reconsidered

If Ruin Comes from This: A House Decided

Dear Tom’s Deception: Birth of the Civil Rights Act

De Pervisions, Josiar: Civil Rights Dawn

Epilogue: Then and Now

Back Matter

Civil Rights Proposals – Texts

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-38407-3

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004384071 DOI