Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Enforcement of Federal Law in the South, 1871-1884 (via Gale Scholar Accelerate Program)

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This collection on law and order documents the efforts of district attorneys from southern states to uphold federal laws in the states that fought in the Confederacy or were Border States. This publication includes their correspondence with the attorney general as well all other letters received by the attorney general from the states in question during that period, including the correspondence of marshals, judges, convicts, and concerned or aggrieved citizens.


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