Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History

262 Pages·2007·2.68 MB·English

by  Michael J. Klarman

unfinished business
i n a l i e n a b l e r i g h t s s e r i e s
. . .
series editor
Geoffrey R. Stone
Lee C.Bollinger MichaelW. McConnell
President Judge
ColumbiaUniversity U.S.CourtofAppealsfor
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Professor,Philosophy,Law,Divinity,
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KennethandHarleMontgomery
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StanfordUniversity
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JFKSchoolofGovernment GeoffreyR.Stone
HarvardUniversity HarryKalven,Jr.Distinguished
ServiceProfessor
Michael J.Klarman UniversityofChicagoLawSchool
JamesMonroeDistinguished
ProfessorofLawandHistory Kathleen M.Sullivan
UniversityofVirginia StanleyMorrisonProfessorof
LawandFormerDean
Larry D.Kramer StanfordLawSchool
RichardE.LangProfessorof
LawandDean Laurence H.Tribe
StanfordLawSchool CarlM.LoebUniversity
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Lawrence Lessig HarvardLawSchool
C.WendellandEdithM.Carlsmith
ProfessorofLaw MarkV. Tushnet
StanfordLawSchool WilliamNelsonCromwell
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HarvardLawSchool
Unfinished Business
. . .
racial equality in american history
Michael J. Klarman
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2007
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Contents
. . .
List of Illustrations
xi
Editor’s Note
xv
Acknowledgments
xix
Introduction
1
chapter one
The Founding
9
chapter two
The Antebellum Period
25
contents
chapter three
The Civil War and Reconstruction
45
chapter four
Retreat from Reconstruction
61
chapter five
White Supremacy Ascendant
75
chapter six
The Progressive Era
93
chapter seven
Between the World Wars
111
chapter eight
World War II
129
chapter nine
Brown v. Board of Education
147
chapter ten
The Civil Rights Era
165
[ viii ]
contents
chapter eleven
To the Present
183
Conclusion
205
Select Bibliography
223
Index
231
[ ix ]