What effect did Supreme Court rulings in cases such as slaughterhouse 1873 and United States v Cruikshank 1876 have on black civil rights?

Civil War and Reconstruction

Philadelphia Freeman’s Journal

Letter to Williamson Durley

Letter to C.H. Chase

Change of Opinion Announced

Letter to Owen Lovejoy

Fragment: On Slavery

Fragment: Notes for Speeches

Letter to Salmon Portland Chase

Letter to Salmon Portland Chase

Letter to George Ashmun

Letter to Alexander H. Stephens

Farewell Speech (1861)

Address to the New Jersey Senate

Letter to Reverdy Johnson

Letter to O.H. Browning

State of the Union (1861)

Letter to James A. McDougal

Proclamation of Thanksgiving

Letter to Horace Greeley

Meditation on the Divine Will

Reply to Mrs. Eliza P. Gurney

Letter to the Editor of the Atlanta Southern Confe...

The Negroes and the Poor

The Election and the War

On the War and Its Conduct

Letter to Governor Andrew Johnson

In Support of a Tax-in-Kind

Why Should a Colored Man Enlist?

Response to a Serenade

Proclamation of Thanksgiving

Letter to James C. Conkling

Letter to Frederick Steele

Letter to Governor Michael Hahn

Address at a Sanitary Fair

Horace Greeley to Abraham Lincoln

Proclamation of Thanksgiving and Prayer

Letter to Mrs. Eliza P. Gurney

Letter to Henry W. Hoffman

Proclamation of Thanksgiving

Last Words

Response to a Serenade

Letter to Mrs. Bixby

State of the Union (1864)

Story written for Noah Brooks

Republican Party Platform of 1864

Response to a Serenade

African Church Speech

Letter to Thurlow Weed

Last Public Address

Veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill

Speech to the Citizens of Washington

Tenure Of Office Act

Excerpt from The Life of Jefferson Davis

"The Real War Will Never Get in the Books"

Federalism/Union

Chapter 17: Reconstructing the West: Grant’s Peace...

Farewell Speech

Democratic Party Platform of 1860

The Policy of Aggression

Crittenden Compromise

The Union Must and Shall Be Preserved

Fragment on the Constitution and Union

A Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induc...

First Inaugural Address (1861)

Speech at Independence Hall

First Inaugural Address (1861)

"Cornerstone" Speech

Virginia Ordinance of Secession

Message to Congress in Special Session

Freedom Songs from North and South

Crittenden Resolution

Homestead Act

Second Confiscation Act

State of the Union (1862)

Final Emancipation Proclamation

Letter to John McClernand

The Prize Cases

Letter to Stephen A. Hurlbut

Letter to General N. P. Banks

Letter to Nathaniel Banks

Gettysburg Address

Letter to Thomas Cottman

Abraham Lincoln to General N.P. Banks

Proclamation Concerning Reconstruction

The "To Whom it May Concern" Letter

We Are Fighting for Independence, Not Slavery

Henry J. Raymond to Abraham Lincoln

A Negotiated Peace with the Confederacy Is Possibl...

Letter to William T. Sherman

An Armistice—How It Would Ruin Us

Slaveholding Reconstructionists

Second Inaugural Address (1865)

Second Inaugural Address

Second Inaugural Address (1865)

Second Inaugural Address

"Grasp of War"

Speech on Reconstruction

First Annual Address (1865)

Report on the Condition of the South

We Want No Confederacy without Slavery

Ex parte Milligan

“The One Man Power vs. Congress!”

State of the Union Address (1866)

Reconstruction

Speech on Reconstruction

Reconstruction Acts

Veto of the First Reconstruction Act

“Damages to Loyal Men”

State of the Union Address (1867)

Party Platforms of 1868

Articles of Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

The 15th Amendment

First Inaugural Address (1869)

The Enforcement Acts

State of the Union Address (1871)

Second Inaugural Address (1873)

The Slaughterhouse Cases

Colfax Massacre Reports

State of the Union Address (1876)

Inaugural Address (1877)

First Inaugural Address (1877)

The Civil Rights Case

“The Study of Administration”

Speech in the Senate

Presidency

Chapter 16: Reconstructing the South

Chapter 17: Reconstructing the West: Grant’s Peace...

Fragment on the Constitution and Union

First Inaugural Address (1861)

Letter to Winfield Scott

Letter to Winfield Scott

Ex Parte Merryman

Message to Congress in Special Session

Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

State of the Union (1862)

Final Emancipation Proclamation

Letter to John McClernand

Order of Retaliation

Proclamation for Thanksgiving (1863)

Gettysburg Address

Letter to Albert G. Hodges

Letter to William T. Sherman

Second Inaugural Address (1865)

Second Inaugural Address (1865)

“The One Man Power vs. Congress!”

Ex Parte Milligan

State of the Union Address (1866)

Veto of the First Reconstruction Act

Articles of Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

First Inaugural Address (1869)

The Coming Woman

The Enforcement Acts

Speech to Red Cloud and Red Dog

State of the Union Address (1873)

State of the Union Address (1874)

Totten, Administrator, v. United States

State of the Union Address (1876)

Inaugural Address (1877)

Religion

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Chapter 16: Reconstructing the South

Chapter 14: John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

Chapter 12: The Peculiar Institution: Positive Goo...

On the Constitution and the Union

The Union Must and Shall Be Preserved

The War—Its Cause and Cure

Battle Hymn of the Republic

John Brown’s Body

Freedom Songs from North and South

Proclamation for Thanksgiving (1863)

Gettysburg Address

Second Inaugural Address

"Grasp of War"

Speech on Reconstruction

State of the Union Address (1869)

State of the Union Address (1871)

State of the Union Address (1875)

A Brand Plucked from the Fire

The Future of the Negro

The Heavenly Vision

“The Home Life of the Indian”

Slavery and Abolition

Chapter 12: The Peculiar Institution: Positive Goo...

Chapter 14: John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

Chapter 16: Reconstructing the South

Chapter 15: War for Union or Abolition?

On the Constitution and the Union

Fugitive Slave Act 1850

Democratic Party Platform of 1860

Crittenden Compromise

The Union Must and Shall Be Preserved

A Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induc...

First Inaugural Address (1861)

First Inaugural Address (1861)

The Corner Stone Speech

"Cornerstone" Speech

The War—Its Cause and Cure

First Confiscation Act

Cast Off the Mill-Stone

John Brown’s Body

Freedom Songs from North and South

Resolution on Compensated Emancipation

District of Columbia Emancipation Act

John Sherman to William Tecumseh Sherman

Harper’s Weekly Editorial on Emancipation

The Twenty Negro Law

State of the Union (1862)

Final Emancipation Proclamation

The Proclamation of Freedom

The President’s Proclamation

The President at Gettysburg

No Gradual Emancipation

Letter to Albert G. Hodges

Slaveholding Reconstructionists

Second Inaugural Address (1865)

Speech on Reconstruction

We Want No Confederacy without Slavery

State of the Union Address (1871)

State of the Union Address (1873)

A Brand Plucked from the Fire

Race (post-Emancipation Proc docs)

Civil Rights Act of 1875

The Future of the Colored Race

What the Black Man Wants

Chapter 16: Reconstructing the South

Letter to Hannibal Hamlin

Harper’s Weekly Editorial on Emancipation

The President’s Proclamation

Letter to John McClernand

Condition of the Country

Men of Color, To Arms!

Order of Retaliation

Letter to Stephen A. Hurlbut

Letter to Nathaniel Banks

Letter to General N. P. Banks

Annual Message to Congress (1863)

Letter to Isaac M. Schermerhorn

The Voice of the People

What the Black Man Wants

Second Inaugural Address (1865)

Second Inaugural Address

Charles Sumner to John Bright

Speech on Reconstruction

Black Codes of Mississippi

First Annual Address (1865)

Report on the Condition of the South

Excerpts from the Journal of Gertrude Thomas

The Civil Rights Act of 1866

“The One Man Power vs. Congress!”

Reconstruction

Speech on Reconstruction

Reconstruction Acts

Veto of the First Reconstruction Act

State of the Union Address (1867)

Party Platforms of 1868

State of the Union Address (1868)

The 15th Amendment

State of the Union Address (1869)

The Enforcement Acts

State of the Union Address (1871)

"Plea for Amnesty"

Many Thousand Gone

Second Inaugural Address (1873)

The Slaughterhouse Cases

State of the Union Address (1874)

Colfax Massacre Reports

Colfax Massacre Reports

United States v. Cruikshank

State of the Union Address (1876)

Inaugural Address (1877)

First Inaugural Address (1877)

The Civil Rights Case

The Future of the Negro

Blessings of Liberty and Education

Plessy v. Ferguson

Plessy v. Ferguson

Speech in the Senate

Commercial Republic

"Cornerstone" Speech

First Confiscation Act

Resolution on Compensated Emancipation

The Prize Cases

Annual Message to Congress (1863)

Life Without Principle

Reply to Elisha H. Allen

Report on the Condition of the South

“Damages to Loyal Men”

Party Platforms of 1868

First Inaugural Address (1869)

Second Inaugural Address (1873)

The Farmers’ Movement

Blessings of Liberty and Education

Parties/Elections

Democratic Party Platform of 1860

The Union Must and Shall Be Preserved

First Inaugural Address (1861)

First Inaugural Address (1861)

Abraham Lincoln to General Schurz

Letter to Nathaniel Banks

The Momentous Day

Democratic Party Platform of 1864

Speech on Reconstruction

Party Platforms of 1868

Arrival of the delegates to the Republican convent...

The Coming Woman

"Plea for Amnesty"

State of the Union Address (1876)

Inaugural Address (1877)

First Inaugural Address (1877)

"The rehabilitation of the Democratic party."

A Union Officer’s Account of the 1864 Election

Speech in the Senate

My Confession of Faith

Social Change and Reform

Chapter 16: Reconstructing the South

Chapter 17: Reconstructing the West: Grant’s Peace...

What the Black Man Wants

The War—Its Cause and Cure

First Confiscation Act

Freedom Songs from North and South

District of Columbia Emancipation Act

Homestead Act

Second Confiscation Act

Letter to Hannibal Hamlin

Condition of the Country

Men of Color, To Arms!

Letter to Stephen A. Hurlbut

Letter to General N. P. Banks

Letter to Nathaniel Banks

Annual Message to Congress (1863)

Letter to Albert G. Hodges

Letter to Isaac M. Schermerhorn

The Voice of the People

Charles Sumner to John Bright

"Grasp of War"

Report on the Condition of the South

Ex parte Milligan

“The One Man Power vs. Congress!”

Reconstruction

Speech on Reconstruction

Reconstruction Acts

Veto of the First Reconstruction Act

“Damages to Loyal Men”

The 15th Amendment

The Enforcement Acts

“An Address on Female Suffrage”

Marital Power Exemplified

"Plea for Amnesty"

Speech to Red Cloud and Red Dog

Many Thousand Gone

The Slaughterhouse Cases

The Slaughterhouse Cases

“IS IT A CRIME FOR A U.S. CITIZEN TO VOTE?”

Colfax Massacre Reports

State of the Union Address (1876)

Inaugural Address (1877)

Progress and Poverty

The Civil Rights Case

The Future of the Negro

“The Study of Administration”

Blessings of Liberty and Education

Speech in the Senate

My View of Segregation Laws

Foreign Policy

Annual Message to Congress (1863)

Reply to Elisha H. Allen

"Grasp of War"

First Annual Address (1865)

The Visit of Red Cloud to Washington, D.C.

State of the Union Address (1870)

State of the Union Address (1871)

State of the Union Address (1872)

State of the Union Address (1873)

State of the Union Address (1874)

State of the Union Address (1875)

First Inaugural Address (1877)

Congress

Chapter 17: Reconstructing the West: Grant’s Peace...

Crittenden Compromise

“The One Man Power vs. Congress!”

State of the Union Address (1866)

Speech on Reconstruction

Reconstruction Acts

“Damages to Loyal Men”

Articles of Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

The 15th Amendment

The Enforcement Acts

"Plea for Amnesty"

State of the Union Address (1873)

Colfax Massacre Reports

Speech in the Senate

Native Americans

Chapter 17: Reconstructing the West: Grant’s Peace...

State of the Union Address (1869)

The Visit of Red Cloud to Washington, D.C.

State of the Union Address (1871)

Speech to Red Cloud and Red Dog

Second Inaugural Address (1873)

State of the Union Address (1876)

Letter to Harriet Converse

“The Home Life of the Indian”

SCOTUS

Ex Parte Milligan

The Slaughterhouse Cases

Minor v. Happersett

Gender and Equality

Chapter 12: The Peculiar Institution: Positive Goo...

Marital Power Exemplified

“An Address on Female Suffrage”

“IS IT A CRIME FOR A U.S. CITIZEN TO VOTE?”

Minor v. Happersett

The Heavenly Vision

“The Home Life of the Indian”

Plessy v. Ferguson