Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction

by Pamela Brandwein

Book Overview

American constitutional lawyers and legal historians routinely assert that the Supreme Court's state action doctrine halted Reconstruction in its tracks. But it didn't. Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction demolishes the conventional wisdom - and puts a constructive alternative in its place. Pamela Brandwein unveils a lost jurisprudence of rights that provided expansive possibilities for protecting blacks' physical safety and electoral...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107625912
• ISBN13: 9781107625914
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"