TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rutherglen, George.
TI  - Civil rights in the shadow of slavery: the constitution, common law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 
SN  - 9780199979
AV  - E185.61 
U1  - 323.1196073 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Civil Rights Act of 1866
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - History
KW  - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
N1  - Includes index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199739707.001.0001
ER  -