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" The trial of democracy : "
Xi Wang.
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BL
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586853
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B9745417b416072
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| Main Entry
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Wang, Xi,1955-
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| Title & Author
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The trial of democracy : : black suffrage and northern Republicans, 1860-1910 /\ Xi Wang.
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| Series Statement
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Studies in the legal history of the South.
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xxv, 411 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm.
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082031837X (alk. paper)
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: 9780820318370 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-395) and index.
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| Contents
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The road to the fifteenth amendment, 1860-1870 -- The making of federal enforcement laws, 1870-1872 -- The anatomy of enforcement, 1870-1876 -- The Hayes administration and black suffrage, 1876-1880 -- The survival of a principle, 1880-1888 -- The rise and fall of reinforcement, 1888-1891 -- Equality deferred, 1892-1910.
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After the Civil War, Republicans teamed with activist African Americans to protect black voting rights through innovative constitutional reforms--a radical transformation of southern and national political structures. This book is a comprehensive analysis of both the forces and mechanisms that led to the implementation of black suffrage and the ultimate failure to maintain a stable northern constituency to support enforcement on a permanent basis. The reforms stirred fierce debates over the political and constitutional value of black suffrage, the legitimacy of racial equality, and the proper sharing of power between the state and federal governments. Unlike most studies of Reconstruction, this book follows these issues into the early twentieth century to examine the impact of the constitutional principles and the rise of Jim Crow.
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )-- History.
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African Americans-- Suffrage-- History.
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United States, Politics and government, 1861-1865.
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United States, Politics and government, 1865-1933.
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324.6/2/08996073
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JK1781.W36 1997
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