{"product_id":"inherently-unequal-the-betrayal-of-equal-rights-by-the-supreme-court-18651903-9780802717924","title":"Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court  1865-1903","description":"\u003cp\u003eA potent and original examination of how the Supreme Court subverted justice and empowered the Jim Crow era. In the following years following the Civil War  the 13th Amendment abolished slavery; the 14th conferred citizenship and equal protection under the law to white and black; and the 15th gave black American males the right to vote. In 1875  the most comprehensive civil rights legislation in the nations history granted all Americans \"the full and equal enjoyment\" of public accomodations. Just eight years later  the Supreme Court  by an 8-1 vote  overturned the Civil Rights Act as unconstitutional and  in the process  disemboweled the equal protection provisions of the 14th Amendment. Using court records and accounts of the period  Lawrence Goldstone chronicles how \"by the dawn of the 20th century the U.S. had become the nation of Jim Crow laws  quasi-slavery  and precisely the same two-tiered system of justice that had existed in the slave era.\" The very human story of how and why this happened make Inherently Unequal as important as it is provocative. Examining both celebrated decisions like Plessy v. Ferguson and those often overlooked  Goldstone demonstrates how the Supreme Court turned a blind eye to the obvious reality of racism  defending instead the business establishment and status quo--thereby legalizing the brutal prejudice that came to definite the Jim Crow era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665997586485,"sku":"ByrdShop_0802717926","price":24.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780802717924.jpg?v=1782415347","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/inherently-unequal-the-betrayal-of-equal-rights-by-the-supreme-court-18651903-9780802717924","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}