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A Rift in the Clouds

其他書名	Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900-1910
出版	University of Arkansas Press, 2007-08-01
主題	Social Science / GeneralSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesHistory / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)Political Science / Civil RightsHistory / General
ISBN	16107534619781610753463
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LHFrEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.