LAW 792 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Colfax Massacre, Reconstruction Amendments, Literacy Test
22 Dec 2019
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Introduction to the struggle for black enfranchisement (pp. Southern lawmakers were openly trying to repeal reconstruction amendments: neither congress nor supreme court enforced rights, e. g. , united states v. cruikshank (us 1875) (dismissing indictments arising out of. Colfax massacre in which white mob murdered group of black voters in la); united. States v. reese (us 1875) (striking down other sections of 1870 enforcement act as beyond congressional power while upholding state efforts to deny other aspects of citizenship to blacks, including right to participate on juries), and; williams v. Mississippi (us 1898) (no right to participate on juries) Giles v. harris, 189 u. s. 475 (1903) (pp. Southern states in proportion to extent of disenfranchisement (7) context and meaning of giles: occurred during redemption when failure to enforce failure civil rights legislation and widespread efforts to disenfranchise black voters in the south were prevalent. : in guinn v. united states (us 1915),
