Civil Rights Cases - Milestone Documents

Civil Rights Cases

( 1883 )

Further Reading

Articles

  • Frantz, Laurent B. “Congressional Power to Enforce the Fourteenth Amendment against Private Acts.” Yale Law Journal 73, no. 8 (July 1964): 1353–1384.
  • Hartz, Louis. “John M. Harlan in Kentucky, 1855–1877: The Story of His Pre-Court Career.” Filson Club History Quarterly 14 (January 1940): 17–40.
  • Lado, Marianne L. Engelman. “A Question of Justice: African-American Legal Perspectives on the 1883 Civil Rights Cases.” Chicago-Kent Law Review 70 (1995): 1123–1195.
  • McPherson, James M. “Abolitionists and the Civil Rights Act of 1875.” Journal of American History 52, no. 3 (December 1965): 493–510.
  • Scott, John Anthony. “Justice Bradley’s Evolving Concept of the Fourteenth Amendment from the Slaughterhouse Cases to the Civil Rights Cases.” Rutgers Law Review 25 (Summer 1971): 552–569.
  • Woodson, Carter. “Fifty Years of Negro Citizenship as Qualified by the United States Supreme Court.” Journal of Negro History 6, no. 1 (January 1921): 1–53.

Books

  • Beatty, Jack. Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865–1900. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
  • Elliott, Mark. Color-Blind Justice: Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • Garraty, John A., ed. Quarrels That Have Shaped the Constitution. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.
  • Miller, Loren. The Petitioners: The Story of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Negro. New York: Pantheon Books, 1966.
  • Urofsky, Melvin I., and Paul Finkelman. A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States. Vol. 1: From the Founding to 1890. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
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