Legislating racism : the billion dollar Congress and the birth of Jim Crow /
The Civil War and Reconstruction were characterized by two lasting legacies -- the failure to bring racial harmony to the South and the failure to foster reconciliation between the North and South. The nation was left with a festering race problem, as a white-dominated society and political structur...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- The grand old party faces the grand old problem
- To empty a running stream : the U.S. Senate considers the Butler Emigration Bill
- To drain the infinite oceans : the swan song of the once-great Blair Education Bill
- Charting new waters : the race problem and the "Reed rules" in the House of Representatives
- The very insanity of democracy : the Federal Elections Bill and the return to reconstruction in the House of Representatives
- Judging the insanity : public reactions to the inflammatory "Force Bill" and the tyranny of the majority
- The stormy and turbulent sea of democratic freedom : the Senate's epic struggle for control of the nation's racial destiny
- Showdown on Capitol Hill : the filibuster, the cloture rule, and the defeat of the Federal Elections Bill
- Silver, sectionalism, Sioux Indians, and sinophobia : why many westerners opposed the Federal Elections Bill
- The "peculiar situation" of African Americans and ethnic minorities in the United States : how racism became fashionable in the 1890s
- Assessing the billion dollar Congress and its effects on American history and race relations.