Securing Civil Rights: Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, Updated Edition

Unique and well-researched, this study concentrates on the right to keep and bear arms and analyzes the incorporation of the Bill of Rights into the Fourteenth Amendment. Examining the history of the recognition of the right of freedmen to keep and bear arms in the period between 1866 and 1876, this comprehensive volume analyzes the extent to which American political society was willing to secure the same civil rights to all without regard to race or previous condition of slavery. Previously published: Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the right to bear arms, 1866-1876. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c1998. Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-226) and index. The civil rights and Freedmen's Bureau Acts and the proposal of the Fourteenth Amendment -- Congress reacts to southern rejection of the Fourteenth Amendment -- The southern state constitutional conventions -- The Freedman's Bureau Act reenacted and the Fourteenth Amendment ratified -- Toward adoption of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 -- From the Klan trials and hearings through the end of the civil rights revolution -- The Cruikshank case, from trial to the Supreme Court -- Unfinished jurisprudence