Preface 1. Introduction Part I: The Civil War Origins of Civil Rights 2. The Republicans Debate Civil Rights 3. The Republicans Enforce Their Civil Rights Policy 4. White and Black Southerners React to Emancipation 5. Congress Debates Civil Rights Legislation Part II: Civil Rights as a Lost Opportunity? 6. Enforcing Civil Rights: Sovereign Will and Public Sentiment 7. Liberal Republicans 8. Social Equality 9. President Hayes and the End of Reconstruction 10. The Supreme Court 11. James G. Blaine Reflects on Reconstruction Part III: The Black Struggle for Civil Rights 12. African Americans Confront Public Sentiment with-and without-Constitutional Rights 13. Segregation 14. Voting Rights 15. Jury Discrimination 16. African Americans as Worthy Citizens Part IV: The Progressives 17. The Progressive State 18. Progressive Journalism 19. Progressive Dissatisfaction with Law 20. Using the Law against Racism 21. The Age of Theodore Roosevelt 22. Criminal Procedure 23. Police Power and Segregation Part V: The Rise of Mass Democracy 24. America as an "Enormous Community" 25. The Art and Practice of Mobilizing Public Opinion: Gandhi 26. The Parker Nomination 27. The Scottsboro Boys 28. The NAACP Lobbies for a Law against Lynching 29. The Constitutional Revolution 30. Struggle and Conflict are Present in All Phases of Life 31. Epilogue

Christopher Waldrep is Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Chair of American History at San Francisco State University. He is author of Lynching in America: A History in Documents.

Race and National Power: A Sourcebook of Black Civil Rights from 1862 to 1954 gathers together a collection of primary documents on the history of law and civil rights, specifically in regard to race. The sources covered include key Supreme Court decisions, opinions from other courts, and texts written by ordinary people - the victims and perpetrators of racism and the lawmakers who wrote the statutes the courts must interpret.

With helpful headnotes and introductions, Race and National Power: A Sourcebook of Black Civil Rights from 1862 to 1954 is the perfect resource for anyone studying legal history or race in America.