Bøger af Robert Michael Goldman

After the American Civil war black men were gunned down for daring to attempt to vote and another black man was denied the the right to vote for failing to pay a poll tax. This title argues that the supreme court decisions in these cases signalled a gap between guaranteed and enforced rights.

When Curt Flood, all-star center fielder for the St Louis Cardinals, refused to be traded to the Philadelphia Phillies in 1968, he sent shock waves throughout professional baseball that ultimately reached the Supreme Court. This book offers a look at Flood's efforts to shake the foundations of major league baseball.

"A Free Ballot and a Fair Count" examines the efforts by the Department of Justice to implement the federal legislation passed by Congress in 1870-71 known as the Enforcement Acts.