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92 U.S. 542Supreme Court of the United States

UNITED STATESv.CRUIKSHANK et al.Argued March 30 – June 24, 1875.Decided March 27, 1876.

from Part V - Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2022

Bennett Capers
Affiliation:
Fordham Law School
Devon W. Carbado
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law
R. A. Lenhardt
Affiliation:
Georgetown University Law Center
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Affiliation:
Boston University School of Law
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Summary

Justice GULASEKARAM delivered the opinion of the Court.1

This case requires us to decide whether there will be justice for the more than seventy colored men who were slaughtered on April 13, 1873 by an army of white supremacists. More broadly, it asks whether the forces of white supremacy who were recently defeated on the battlefield may nevertheless succeed in this legal civil war, currently being waged in our federal courts. Indeed, in this case, the fate of our national project to build a “more perfect union” through emancipation, reconstruction, and equality hangs in the balance.

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Critical Race Judgments
Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the Law
, pp. 537 - 556
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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