02600cam a2200337 i 4500 434129432 TxGeo 20200824120000.0 200107s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019037734 9781640093928 hbk. 1640093923 hbk. (OCoLC)1112281716 TxGeo rda Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947- On account of race : the Supreme Court, white supremacy, and the ravaging of African American voting rights / Lawrence Goldstone. First hardcover edition. Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint Press, 2020. xii, 283 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-271) and index. Beginning in 1876, the Court systematically dismantled both the equal protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment, at least for African-Americans, and what seemed to be the guarantee of the right to vote in the Fifteenth. And so, of the more than 500,000 African-Americans who had registered to vote across the South, the vast majority former slaves, by 1906, less than ten percent remained. Many of those were terrified to go the polls, lest they be beaten, murdered, or have their homes burned to the ground. None of this was done in the shadows-those determined to wrest the vote from black Americans could not have been more boastful in either intent or execution. But the Court chose to ignore the obvious and wrote decisions at odds with the Constitution, preferring to instead reinforce the racial stereotypes of the day. "Whites Only" tells the story of an American tragedy, the only occasion in United States history in which a group of citizens who had been granted the right to vote then had it stripped away. Even more unjust was that this theft of voting rights was done with full approval, even the sponsorship, of the United States Supreme Court. 20200910. Race discrimination Law and legislation United States History 19th century. Race discrimination Law and legislation United States History 20th century. African Americans Suffrage History 19th century. African Americans Suffage History 20th century. QS5