Equality before the law protected by national statute. Speeches of Hon. Chas. Sumner, of Massachusetts, on his supplementary civil rights bill, as an amendment to the civil rights bill. In the Senate, Jan. 15, 17 and 31, Feb. 5, and May 21, 1872...

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African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P.Murray Collection, 1818-1907

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Equality before the law protected by national statute. Speeches of Hon. Chas. Sumner, of Massachusetts, on his supplementary civil rights bill, as an amendment to the civil rights bill. In the Senate, Jan. 15, 17 and 31, Feb. 5, and May 21, 1872...

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
Washington, S. & R. O. Polkinhorn, printers, 1874.

SUMMARY
Speeches and debates by and involving Sumner in the Senate as he proposed to amend the 1866 Civil Rights Act to ensure equal rights to African Americans in the South. Sumner discusses race, the separate but equal doctrine, slavery, and citizenship in making his points with southern Senators.

SUBJECTS
Negroes--Civil rights.
Freedmen.
Addresses--Washington (D.C.)--1872.

MEDIUM
66 p. 23 cm.

CALL NUMBER
E185.2 .S953

PART OF
Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)

DIGITAL ID
lcrbmrp t2415 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/lcrbmrp.t2415

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