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A Rift in the Clouds

Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900-1910

By: Brent J. Aucoin

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A Rift in the Clouds

Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900-1910

By: Brent J. Aucoin

A Rift in the Clouds chronicles the efforts of three white southern federal judges to protect the civil rights of African Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century, when few in the American legal community were willing to do so. Jacob Treiber of Arkansas, Emory Speer of Georgia, and Thomas Goode Jones of Alabama challenged the Supreme Court's reading of the Reconstruction amendments that were passed in an attempt to make disfranchised and exploited African Americans equal citizens of the United States. These unpopular white southerners, two of whom who had served in the Confederate Army and had themselves helped to bring Reconstruction to an end in their states, asserted that the amendments not only established black equality, but authorized the government to protect blacks. Although their rulings won few immediate gains for blacks and were overturned by the Supreme Court, their legal arguments would be resurrected, and meet with greater success, over half a century later during the civil rights movement.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1610753461

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Thomas Goode Jones

Race, Politics, and Justice in the New South

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Thomas Goode Jones

Race, Politics, and Justice in the New South

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Thomas Goode Jones of Alabama is the first comprehensive biography of a key Alabama politician and federal jurist whose life and times embody the conflicts and transformations in the Deep South between the Civil War and World War I.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817319131

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9780817319137

A Rift in the Clouds

Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900-1910

By: Brent J. Aucoin

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A Rift in the Clouds

Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900-1910

By: Brent J. Aucoin

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University of Arkansas Press

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1610753461

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