Until justice be done : America's first civil rights movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

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Label

Until justice be done : America's first civil rights movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Title remainder

America's first civil rights movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Statement of responsibility

Kate Masur

Title variation

America's first civil rights movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Creator

• Masur, Kate

Contributor

• Johnson, Allyson
• hoopla digital

Author

• Masur, Kate

Subject

• African Americans -- Politics and government -- 19th century
• Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• African Americans -- Civil rights | History -- 19th century
• African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. | History -- 19th century

Language

eng

Summary

A groundbreaking history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, north and south, in the decades before the Civil War. The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states, claiming the authority to maintain the domestic peace, enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling their boundaries and restricted the rights to testify in court, move freely from place to place, work, vote, and attend public school. But over time, African American activists and their white allies, often facing mob violence, courageously built a movement to fight these racist laws. They countered the states' insistence on local control with the equal-rights promises they found in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Long stymied by hostile white majorities and unfavorable court decisions, the movement's vision became increasingly mainstream in the 1850s, particularly among supporters of the new Republican party. When Congress began rebuilding the nation after the Civil War, Republicans installed this vision of racial equality in the 1866 Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment. These were the landmark achievements of the first civil rights movement

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

323.1196/07309034

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not applicable

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Literary text for sound recordings

other

PerformerNote

Read by Allyson Johnson

Target audience

adult

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