Stolen justice / Goldstone, Lawrence

Investigates the history of the Reconstruction era following the Civil War and the efforts to secure newly freed slaves and later generations of African Americans the right to vote. Explores the partisan fighting over the Constitution and legislature--with Constitutional Amendments, Reconstruction Acts, Civil Rights Acts, and Enforcement Acts being needed--to finally secure the vote for black Americans.

"In this . . . portrait of the systematic suppression of the African American vote, . . . author Lawrence Goldstone traces the injustices of the post-Reconstruction era through the eyes of . . . individuals, both heroic and barbaric, and examines the legal cases that made the Supreme Court a partner of white supremacists in the rise of Jim Crow"--Provided by publisher.