This page needs to be proofread.
Contents.
|
Preface
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
|
iii–vii |
|
Dedicatory Address
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
|
1–22 |
|
The Brotherhood of Liberty to their Brethren the Citizens of the United States of African Descent
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
|
23–39 |
|
Original Letter of the Brotherhood of Liberty to their Counsel
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
|
40–48 |
|
Answer of Counsel to Original Letter of Brotherhood
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
|
44–62 |
Chapter I.
Opening statement: Privileges and immunities of African citizens of the United States, contrasted with those enjoyed by all other races, confessedly stand to-day in abeyance—Anomalous status of civil rights of these citizens—Views of an unbiassed foreign jurist as to the constitutional status of civil rights in America—Irrelevancy of question of race or color—Civil-rights cases always Black v. White—The pigment of the skin of a good citizen, a man of pure morals, and well educated, ought not to affect his civil rights—An unknown factor operating in the dark to be brought to light—No one has the temerity to attempt its solution—Increased confusion of the supposed student upon learning that the judges were of the white race, and chosen by the ballots of both races on account of the imposing splendor of their learning
Chapter II.
Civil rights viewed in the cold light of a dispassionate search after truth—Opening of a friendly, inartificial dialogue between the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the foreign student—The questions puzzle the greatest adepts in political science and jurisprudence—Mysterious impediments to the working of the Fourteenth Amendment—Civil rights not decided in accordance with its provisions, but by the paramount authority over them of the public servants, who have repealed and repudiated them—Racial not civil rights the real issue—The student's impressions respecting the Chief Justice—The American the first government, from barbaric ages downward, in which by a
ix
