Welcoming Ruin
Welcoming Ruin

Author: Alan Friedlander

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-26

Total Pages: 697

ISBN-13: 9004384073

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The Civil Rights Act of 1875, enacted March 1, 1875, banned racial discrimination in public accommodations – hotels, public conveyances and places of public amusement. In 1883 the U.S. Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional, ushering in generations of segregation until 1964. This first full-length study of the Act covers the years of debates in Congress and some forty state studies of the midterm elections of 1874 in which many supporting Republicans lost their seats. They returned to pass the Act in the short session of Congress. This book utilizes an army of primary sources from unpublished manuscripts, rare newspaper accounts, memoir materials and official documents to demonstrate that Republicans were motivated primarily by an ideology that civil equality would produce social order in the defeated southern states.

Comprehensive Index to the Publications of the United States Government, 1881-1893
Comprehensive Index to the Publications of the United States Government, 1881-1893

Author: United States. Department of the Interior. Division of Documents

Publisher:

Published: 1905

Total Pages: 822

ISBN-13:

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A subject index, "compiled in compliance with the provisions of a joint resolution approved March 3, 1897, which directs the preparation of an index to all publications of the government from 1881, the date at which the Descriptive catalogue of government publications by Ben: Perley Poore terminates, to 1893, the date at which the index by the superintendent of documents begins, said index to conform in its general plan to ... [Ames'] Comprehensive index of government publications from 1889 to 1893, ' published in 1894."