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Promises to Keep: African-Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present (Organization of American Historians Bicentennial Essays on the Bill of Rights)
Promises to Keep AfricanAmericans and the Constitutional Order 1776 to the Present - Organization of American Historians Bicentennial Essays on the Bill of Rights
Author: Donald G. Nieman
African-Americans have had an ambivalent relationship with the Constitution for more than two hundred years. — Throughout most of American history, racist interpretations of the Constitution have sanctioned a legal system supportive of slavery, marked blacks as inferiors, rendered them politically powerless, and denied them justice and access to ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195055610
ISBN-10: 0195055616
Publication Date: 1/3/1991
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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