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Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903
by
Lawrence Goldstone (Goodreads Author)
A potent and original examination of how the Supreme Court subverted justice and empowered the Jim Crow era.
In the following years following the Civil War, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery; the 14th conferred citizenship and equal protection under the law to white and black; and the 15th gave black American males the right to vote. In 1875, the most comprehensive civil...more
In the following years following the Civil War, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery; the 14th conferred citizenship and equal protection under the law to white and black; and the 15th gave black American males the right to vote. In 1875, the most comprehensive civil...more
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
January 18th 2011
by Walker & Company
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The period after the Civil War was supposed to usher in some semblance of equality for just-freed African-Americans. Three constitutional amendments, a republican majority in a very strong federal government and an occupied South should have combined to guarantee this equality. Instead, the US Supreme Court gutted the amendments, legalized Jim Crow laws, gave us "equal but separate" (as it was first called), and shifted the rights of the three amendments to corporations - they're the guys we nee...more
I wanted so much more from this book. The Supreme Court’s complicity towards racism in the 19th Century is covered – albeit in less detail – in law school, but the book never ventures beyond hinting at an elevated legal and political analysis of the subject. If anything, the book strikes me as a survey intended for a general audience – except that the style and tone are more suited to a legal audience. I relied on my own study of the law to fill in some of the blanks in the analysis, and I have...more
Interesting book about the aftermath of the civil war according to the 14th and 15th amendments of the Constitution. They mainly dealt with voting right and how they should not be infringed upon according the your race; Native Americans though were not counted as a race but as a conquered peoples. (another subject altogether)
The book basically tells the story about how the country and its supreme court judges were just not ready for the full integration of African Americans in the political and...more
The book basically tells the story about how the country and its supreme court judges were just not ready for the full integration of African Americans in the political and...more
I started to rate this book a 3. After all, Goldstone is a writer, not a professional historian. And, I was going to say that its treatment of the subject was too surface, not deep enough.
As I finished the book, I thought what's not to like? It's an engaging treatment of a subject that could be dry, an overall look at a period of American history of which I knew little, with enough detail on case law (all I wanted), and includes a review of social issues that influenced American thought and acti...more
As I finished the book, I thought what's not to like? It's an engaging treatment of a subject that could be dry, an overall look at a period of American history of which I knew little, with enough detail on case law (all I wanted), and includes a review of social issues that influenced American thought and acti...more
Although a DENSE read, I found this to be a really enlightening description of the Court's reaction to public sentiment, political competition with the legislature, and personal prejudices during the time between the ratification of the Reconstruction Amendments and the rise of Jim Crow laws. I won't lie, it's clear that the author has a definite liberal slant- but looking beyond that is a pretty vivid discussion of federal versus state rights, and what happens when states cross a pretty major m...more
Wonderfully written, smartly researched, and incredibly maddening book.
Interesting history of a little talked about period in American history. Very effective at making the case against "activist judges."
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Lawrence Goldstone is the author of fourteen books of both fiction and non-fiction. Six of those books were co-authored with his wife, Nancy, but they now write separately to save what is left of their dishes.
Goldstone's articles, reviews, and opinion pieces have appeared in, among other publications, the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Hartford Courant, and Berkshi...more
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Goldstone's articles, reviews, and opinion pieces have appeared in, among other publications, the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Hartford Courant, and Berkshi...more
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