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  • Intro; Welcoming Ruin: The Civil Rights Act of 1875; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations and Maps; 1 Prologue; 1 The Civil Rights Act of 1875 in the History of Reconstruction; 2 Rights-For-Order; 3 Historiographical Perspectives; 4 Precedent: The Civil Rights Act of 1866; 5 Charles Sumner's Quest; 2 A Muster of Moths: The Forty-Third Congress of the United States; 3 Charge at New Market Heights: Debate in the House of Representatives; 4 Purblind Child of Darkness: Sumner's Civil Rights Bill Passes the Senate; 5 The Deadest Corpse: No Exit in the House
  • 6 Horace Redfield's Journey: The Long Hot Summer of 18747 The Shirt of Nessus: Elections in Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia; 1 Georgia; 2 North Carolina; 3 Virginia; 8 Quintessence of Abominations: Elections in Tennessee and Alabama; 1 Tennessee; 2 Alabama; 9 Carry the News to Hiram: Elections in Florida and Louisiana; 1 Florida; 2 Louisiana; 10 Greeley's Ghost: Elections in Arkansas, Texas, Missouri and Maryland; 1 Arkansas; 2 Texas; 3 Missouri; 4 Maryland; 11 Taliaferro's Ghost: Border States and the North; Obituary; 1 Delaware; 2 West Virginia; 3 Illinois; 4 Indiana; 5 Ohio
  • 6 Pennsylvania7 New Jersey; 8 Obituary; 12 Suffer the Little White Children: Vox Populi Reconsidered; 13 If Ruin Comes from This: A House Decided; 14 Dear Tom's Deception: Birth of the Civil Rights Act; 15 De Pervisions, Josiar: Civil Rights Dawn; 16 Epilogue: Then and Now; Appendices; Appendix A Chronology; Appendix B Civil Rights Proposals
  • Texts; Bibliography; Index