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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
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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