Welcoming Ruin

Alan Friedlander, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1982), is Professor Emeritus in History at Southern Connecticut State University. He is the author of Processus Bernardi Delitiosi: The Trial of Fr. Bernard Délicieux (American Philosophical Society, 1996), and Hammer of the Inquisitors: Brother Bernard Délicieux and the Struggle Against the Inquisition in Fourteenth-Century France (Brill, 2000). Richard Allan Gerber, Ph.D., University of Michigan (1967), is Professor Emeritus in History at Southern Connecticut State University, and Adjunct Professor in History at Charter Oak State College. He is the author of The System: The American Constitution in Historical Perspective (Cengage Learning, 2009) and Revolution and Union: The American Dilemma 1763-1877 (Cengage Learning, 2008). He has received a Scholarship award from the Organization of American Historians and the Teaching Excellence award from Lehman College (CUNY).

• Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Maps 1 Prologue 1 The Civil Rights Act of 1875 in the History of Reconstruction 2 Rights-For-Order 3 Historiographical Perspectives 4 Precedent: The Civil Rights Act of 1866 5 Charles Sumner's Quest 2 A Muster of Moths: The Forty-Third Congress of the United States 3 Charge at New Market Heights: Debate in the House of Representatives 4 Purblind Child of Darkness: Sumner's Civil Rights Bill Passes the Senate 5 The Deadest Corpse: No Exit in the House 6 Horace Redfield's Journey: The Long Hot Summer of 1874 7 The Shirt of Nessus: Elections in Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia1 Georgia2 North Carolina3 Virginia 8 Quintessence of Abominations: Elections in Tennessee and Alabama1 Tennessee2 Alabama 9 Carry the News to Hiram: Elections in Florida and Louisiana1 Florida2 Louisiana 10 Greeley's Ghost: Elections in Arkansas, Texas, Missouri Maryland1 Arkansas2 Texas3 Missouri4 Maryland 11 Taliaferro's Ghost: Border States and the North; ObituaryDelaware1 West Virginia2 Illinois3 Indiana4 Ohio5 Pennsylvania6 New Jersey7 Obituary 12 Suffer the Little White Children: Vox Populi Reconsidered 13 If Ruin Comes from This: A House Decided 14 Dear Tom's Deception: Birth of the Civil Rights Act 15 De Pervisions, Josiar: Civil Rights Dawn 16 Epilogue: Then and Now AppendicesA.ChronologyB.Civil Rights Proposals - Texts BibliographyIndex