U.S. v. Cruikshank: 1875
Suggestions For Further Reading
Burns, James MacGregor. A People's Charter: the Pursuit of Rights in America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.
Emerson, Thomas Irwin. Political andCivilRights in the United States: A Collection of Legal and Related Materials. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1967.
Foner, Eric. "The New View of Reconstruction." American Heritage (October 1983): 10-16.
Franklin, John Hope. "Mirror for Americans: a Century of Reconstruction History." The American Historical Review (February 1980): 1-14.
Neely, Mark E. The Fate of Libertv: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Nieman, Donald G. Promises to Keep: African-Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present.New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
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