01529nam a2200301 a 4500 EDZ0000105860 StDuBDS 20150804193927.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 121031s2013 enk fo| 001 0 eng|d 9780199979363 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS E185.61 323.1196073 23 Rutherglen, George. Civil rights in the shadow of slavery [electronic resource] : the constitution, common law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 / George A. Rutherglen. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. 1 online resource. The author begins with the birth of civil rights - the circumstances, acts and legacy of the 39th Congress, constitutional origins, passage and structure of the Act, moves through the Fourteenth Amendment and into restrictive interpretations and quiescent years, and finishes with a chapter on discerning the future from the past and the contemporary significance of the Act. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 31, 2012). Includes index. United States. Civil Rights Act of 1866. African Americans Civil rights History. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Print version 9780199739707 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199739707.001.0001 37062 37062 0 0 ddc 0 323_119607300000000 1 REF 302113 DUL DUL RC 2017-03-22 Gift 323.1196073 A266415 2017-03-22 2017-03-22