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Goldstone, Lawrence

Summary: "Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction era raised a new question to those in power in the US: Should African Americans, so many of them former slaves, be granted the right to vote? In a bitter partisan fight over the legislature and Constitution, the answer eventually became yes, though only after two constitutional amendments, two Reconstruction Acts, two Civil Rights Acts, three...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 324.6 GOL

Goldstone, Lawrence

Summary: "Beginning in 1876, the Court systematically dismantled both the equal protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment, at least for African-Americans, and what seemed to be the guarantee of the right to vote in the Fifteenth. And so, of the more than 500,000 African-Americans who had registered to vote across the South, the vast majority former slaves, by 1906, less than ten percent...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 GOL

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