A Rift in the Clouds: Race and the Southern Federal Judiciary, 1900-1910University of Arkansas Press, 2007 M11 1 - 183 páginas A Rift in the Clouds chronicles the efforts of three white southern federal judges to protect the civil rights of African Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century, when few in the American legal community were willing to do so. Jacob Treiber of Arkansas, Emory Speer of Georgia, and Thomas Goode Jones of Alabama challenged the Supreme Court's reading of the Reconstruction amendments that were passed in an attempt to make disfranchised and exploited African Americans equal citizens of the United States. These unpopular white southerners, two of whom who had served in the Confederate Army and had themselves helped to bring Reconstruction to an end in their states, asserted that the amendments not only established black equality, but authorized the government to protect blacks. Although their rulings won few immediate gains for blacks and were overturned by the Supreme Court, their legal arguments would be resurrected, and meet with greater success, over half a century later during the civil rights movement. |
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... served as the lawyer for the defendants , one of Arkansas's representa- tives in the U.S. Senate , James P. Clarke , jumped at the chance to join the whitecappers ' legal team after Trieber handed down his Morris decision . Clarke had a ...
... served as the lawyer for the defendants , one of Arkansas's representa- tives in the U.S. Senate , James P. Clarke , jumped at the chance to join the whitecappers ' legal team after Trieber handed down his Morris decision . Clarke had a ...
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... served on the bench for thirty - three years.1 Speer , who was born in 1846 in Culloden , Georgia , was a descendent of two fairly prominent southern families . His father and grandfather were both well - respected , educated Methodist ...
... served on the bench for thirty - three years.1 Speer , who was born in 1846 in Culloden , Georgia , was a descendent of two fairly prominent southern families . His father and grandfather were both well - respected , educated Methodist ...
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... served as the president of the First National Bank of Helena . In addition he served fifteen years on the Helena City Council ( 1882–1897 ) and five years as the treasurer of Phillips County ( 1892–1897 ) . 3. Heaney , " Jacob Trieber ...
... served as the president of the First National Bank of Helena . In addition he served fifteen years on the Helena City Council ( 1882–1897 ) and five years as the treasurer of Phillips County ( 1892–1897 ) . 3. Heaney , " Jacob Trieber ...
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Judge Jacob Trieber | 17 |
Judge Emory Speer | 37 |
Judge Thomas Goode Jones | 53 |
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