U.S. History

Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903

Lawrence Goldstone

About the Program

Lawrence Goldstone recounts the Supreme Court renouncement of the Civil Rights Act in 1883.  The Court, by an 8-1 vote, deemed the Act unconstitutional and by doing so muted the protections of the Fourteenth Amendment.  Mr. Goldstone examines the Court's proceedings and the Jim Crow era that followed.  Lawrence Goldstone discusses his book at The Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, Arizona.

About the Authors

Lawrence Goldstone

Lawrence Goldstone is the author of The Activist: John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, and the Myth of Judicial Review and Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution


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Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903

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Past Airings

  • Saturday, April 16th at 9am (ET)
  • Saturday, April 2nd at 1:45pm (ET)
  • Monday, March 21st at 5am (ET)
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