“Goldstone offers a clear, cogent reading of the court's machinations, no small accomplishment since the justices generally rested their opinions on convoluted legal reasoning rather than on broad principles.”
— Kevin Boyle Washington Post on Inherently Unequal
Inherently Unequal
by Lawrence Goldstone
A potent and original examination of how the Supreme Court subverted justice and empowered the Jim Crow era.
In the years following the Civil War, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery