Race and National Power

Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Part I: The Civil War Origins of Civil Rights Chapter 2: The Republicans Debate Civil Rights Chapter 3: The Republicans Enforce Their Civil Rights Policy Chpater 4: White and Black Southerners React to Emancipation Chapter 5: Congress Debates Civil Rights Legislation Part II: Civil Rights as a Lost Opportunity? Chapter 6: Enforcing Civil Rights: Sovereign Will and Public Sentiment Chapter 7: Liberal Republicans Chapter 8: Social Equality Chapter 9: President Hayes and the End of Reconstruction Chapter 10: The Supreme Court Chapter 11: James G. Blaine Reflects on Reconstruction Part III: The Black Struggle for Civil Rights Chapter 12: African Americans COnfront Public Sentiment with - and without -Constitutional Rights Chapter 13: Segregation Chapter 14: Voting Rights Chapter 15: Jury Discrimination Chpater 16: African Americans as Worthy Citizens Part IV: The Progressives Chapter 17: The Progressive State Chapter 18: Progressive Journalism Chapter 19: Progressive Dissatisfaction with Law Chapter 20: Using the Law against Racism Chapter 21: The Age of Theodore Roosevelt Chapter 22: Criminal Procedure Chapter 23: Police Power and Segregation Part V: The Rise of Mass Democracy Chapter 24: America as an "Enormous Community" Chapter 25: The Art and Practice of Mobilizing Public Opinion: Gandhi Chapter 26: The Parker Nomination Chapter 27: The Scottsboro Boys Chapter 28: The NAACP Lobbies for a Law against Lynching Chapter 29: The Constitutional Revolution Chapter 30: Struggle and Conflict are Present in All Phases of Life Chapter 31: Epilogue

Christopher Waldrep is Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Chair of American History at San Francisco State University. He is author of Lynching in America: A History in Documents.

"Race and National Power assembles a variety of sources to compose a complex portrait of the US legal and political landscape over a period of almost one hundred years. Thorough research and skillful comments render this the best sourcebook on race and law. It is at the same time a rich collection of documents on US politics. Anyone writing on race, law, and politics in the United States has to read this book." -Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva, Associate Professor & Vice-Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego "Christopher Waldrep has produced a fascinating and highly useful sourcebook for anyone interested in American history. The rich documents in the volume capture the plethora of views and voices that weighed in on these debates--everyone from black victims of white violence, to newspaper editors, to Supreme Court justices. Waldrep's expert and informative commentary, along with the documents themselves, reveal the complexity of constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing federal power in the service of racial equality." -Risa L. Goluboff, Professor of Law and History, University of Virginia Law School, author of The Lost Promise of Civil Rights "Waldrep presents a deep and rich array of primary documents and provides insightful analysis which grounds and contextualizes them. This moving and accessible book, which takes us from the Civil War through Brown, should quickly become an indispensible teaching tool for a multitude of undergraduate and law school classes." -Felice Batlan, Assistant Professor of Law, Co-director of the Law and Humanities Institute, Chicago-Kent College of Law "In Race and National Power Christopher Waldrep plunges into the depths of American race relations history to retrieve both standard and little-remembered or often overlooked archival evidence of the unmistakable architecture of legalized (and extralegal) white racism, black subordination, and the near century-long political battle to end both