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Their accomplices wore robes : how the Supreme Court chained black America to the bottom of a racial caste system / Brando Simeo Starkey.

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"Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes readers from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Court-even more than the presidency or Congress-aligned with the enemies of Black progress to undermine the promise of the Constitution's Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. The Reconstruction Amendments-which sought to abolish slavery, establish equal protection under the law, and protect voting rights-converted the Constitution into a potent anti-caste document. But in the years since, the Supreme Court has refused to allow the amendments to fulfill that promise. Time and again, when petitioned to make the nation's founding conceit-that all men are created equal-real for Black Americans, the nine black robes have chosen white supremacy over racial fairness. Their Accomplices Wore Robes brings to life dozens of cases and their rich casts of characters-petitioners, attorneys, justices-to explain how America arrived at this point and how society might arrive somewhere better, even as today's federal courts lurch rightward. In this groundbreaking grand history, Brando Simeo Starkey reveals a troubling and dark aspect of American history"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780385547383
  • ISBN: 0385547382
  • Physical Description: 672 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First Doubleday hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2025

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Opening address -- Part 1. Prelude -- First leg: The Trinity Conception -- Second leg: the protection retraction -- Third leg: the Mississippi inspiration -- Fourth leg: the slavery reintroduction -- Part 2. Prelude -- Fifth leg: Thurgood and the caste dereliction -- Sixth leg: Thurgood and the ignorance observation -- Seventh leg: Thurgood and the two-faced deception -- Eighth leg: a culture of unfit imposition -- Farewell address.
Subject: United States. Supreme Court.
United States. Constitution. 13th Amendment.
United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment.
United States. Constitution. 15th Amendment.
Equality before the law > United States.
Discrimination in justice administration > United States.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Race discrimination > Law and legislation > United States.
African American judges.
Slavery > Law and legislation > United States.
Genre: Informational works.

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