Getting away with murder : the twentieth-century struggle for civil rights in the U.S. Senate

Getting away with murder : the twentieth-century struggle for civil rights in the U.S. Senate / Vanessa A. Holloway.

During the early twentieth century, nearly 200 anti-lynching proposals were introduced in the United States Congress. Getting Away with Murder argues that constitutional defenses for these proposals were merely excuses for Southern Democrats' racist attitudes toward black Americans and for givi...

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Main Author: Holloway, Vanessa A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Landham : University Press of America, [2014]
Subjects:
United States. > Congress. > Senate.
United States. > Congress. > Senate
Civil rights > United States > History.
Legislators > United States.
members of Congress.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Civil rights
Legislators
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Conduit to Getting Away with Murder
  • 2 "No" with Authority, the Solid South in Congress
  • 3 Blaming Racism and the Democratic Solidarity in the Senate
  • 4 White Supremacy, the Unwritten Law of the Land
  • 5 The Disappointment, Stymied by Old Southern Politics
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Selected Bibliography.

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