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Until Justice Be Done

cover of Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur
Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur

Kate Masur highlights the fundamental difference between the anti-slavery and the Civil Rights movements reaching backward from the Reconstruction through the early American republic. Masur emphasizes police powers of the states and the poor law traditions as rivals to the tradition of individual rights shining light on the decades long making of the 14th amendment.