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• catalog abstract ""In The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, Lou Falkner Williams presents a comprehensive account of the events of the Klan uprising in the South Carolina piedmont in the Reconstruction era. It is a gripping story - one that helps us better understand the limits of constitutional change in post-Civil War America and the failure of Reconstruction." "The South Carolina Klan trials represent the culmination of the federal government's most substantial effort during Reconstruction to stop white violence and provide personal security for African Americans. Federal interventions, suspension of habeas corpus in nine counties, widespread undercover investigations, arrests of several hundred Klansmen, subsequent indictments, and highly publicized trials resulting in the conviction of several Klansmen are all detailed in Williams's study." "When the trials began, the Supreme Court had yet to interpret the Fourteenth Amendment and the Enforcement Acts. Thus the fourth federal circuit court became a forum for constitutional experimentation as the prosecution and defense squared off to present their opposing views. The fate of the individual Klansmen was almost incidental to the larger constitutional issues in these celebrated trials. It was the federal circuit judges' devotion to state-centered federalismnot a lack of concern for the Klan's victims - that kept them from embracing constitutional doctrine that would have fundamentally altered the nature of the Union." "Placing the Klan trials in the context of postemancipation race relations, Williams shows that the Klan's campaign of terror in the upcountry reflected white determination to preserve prewar racial and social standards. Her analysis of Klan violence against women breaks new ground, revealing that white women were attacked to preserve traditional southern sexual mores, while crimes against black women were designed primarily to demonstrate white male supremacy."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog contributor b9351573.
• catalog created "c1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "c1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
• catalog description ""In The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, Lou Falkner Williams presents a comprehensive account of the events of the Klan uprising in the South Carolina piedmont in the Reconstruction era. It is a gripping story - one that helps us better understand the limits of constitutional change in post-Civil War America and the failure of Reconstruction." "The South Carolina Klan trials represent the culmination of the federal government's most substantial effort during Reconstruction to stop white violence and provide personal security for African Americans. Federal interventions, suspension of habeas corpus in nine counties, widespread undercover investigations, arrests of several hundred Klansmen, subsequent indictments, and highly publicized trials resulting in the conviction of several Klansmen are all detailed in Williams's study." "When the trials began, the Supreme Court had yet to interpret the Fourteenth Amendment and the Enforcement Acts. Thus the fourth federal circuit court became a forum for constitutional experimentation as the prosecution and defense squared off to present their opposing views. The fate of the individual Klansmen was almost incidental to the larger constitutional issues in these celebrated trials. It was the federal circuit judges' devotion to state-centered federalismnot a lack of concern for the Klan's victims - that kept them from embracing constitutional doctrine that would have fundamentally altered the nature of the Union." "Placing the Klan trials in the context of postemancipation race relations, Williams shows that the Klan's campaign of terror in the upcountry reflected white determination to preserve prewar racial and social standards. Her analysis of Klan violence against women breaks new ground, revealing that white women were attacked to preserve traditional southern sexual mores, while crimes against black women were designed primarily to demonstrate white male supremacy."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-191) and index.".
• catalog description "Klan crime and the South Carolina whites -- Federal intervention and southern resistance -- The Constitution and the Klan on trial -- The Ku Klux Klan in court -- Sentencing and the end of Reconstruction -- Enforcement in the Supreme Court.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 197 p., [8] p. of plates :".
• catalog identifier "0820317950 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog isPartOf "Studies in the legal history of the South".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "c1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Athens : University of Georgia Press,".
• catalog spatial "South Carolina".
• catalog spatial "South Carolina.".
• catalog subject "975.7/00496073 20".
• catalog subject "Civil rights South Carolina History.".
• catalog subject "KF220 .W537 1996".
• catalog subject "Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.) Trials, litigation, etc.".
• catalog subject "Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) South Carolina.".
• catalog subject "Reconstruction South Carolina.".
• catalog subject "Trials South Carolina.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Klan crime and the South Carolina whites -- Federal intervention and southern resistance -- The Constitution and the Klan on trial -- The Ku Klux Klan in court -- Sentencing and the end of Reconstruction -- Enforcement in the Supreme Court.".
• catalog title "The great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan trials, 1871-1872 / Lou Falkner Williams.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "Trials, litigation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".