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A potent and original examination of how the Supreme Courtroom subverted justice and empowered the Jim Crow era. In the next years following Civil Warfare, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery; the 14th conferred citizenship and identical protection under regulations to white and dark; and the 15th gave dark American guys the to vote. In 1875, the most complete civil protection under the law legislation in the country's history granted all People in the usa "the full and equal enjoyment" of general population accommodations. Just eight years later, the Supreme Courtroom, by an 8-1 vote, overturned the Civil Protection under the law Act as unconstitutional and, along the way, disemboweled the identical protection provisions of the 14th Amendment. Using court records and accounts of the period, Lawrence Goldstone chronicles how "by the dawn of the 20th century the U.S. experienced become the nation of Jim Crow regulations, quasi-slavery, and precisely the same two-tiered system of justice that experienced existed in the slave era." The very human storyline of how and just why this took place make Inherently Unequal as important as it is provocative. Evaluating both celebrated decisions like Plessy v. Ferguson and the ones often forgotten, Goldstone demonstrates how the Supreme Court turned a blind eye to the apparent actuality of racism, defending instead the business enterprise establishment and position quo - thereby legalizing the brutal prejudice that emerged to definite the Jim Crow era.
