Reconstruction and Black Suffrage: Losing the Vote in Reese and Cruikshank

by Robert M. Goldman

Book Overview

On Easter Sunday in 1873, more than one hundred black men were gunned down in Grant Parish, Louisiana, for daring to assert their right to vote. Several months earlier, in Lexington, Kentucky, another black man was denied the right to vote for simply failing to pay a poll tax. Both events typified the intense opposition to the federal guarantee of black voting rights. Both events led to landmark Supreme Court decisions. And, as Robert Goldman shows,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700610693
• ISBN13: 9780700610693
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"