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United States v. Cruikshank
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opinion of Waite
- In Morrison Remick Waite
In United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1876), he stated that, despite its apparently plain language, the Fifteenth Amendment had not conferred a federal right of suffrage on blacks, because “the right to vote comes from the states.” In Hall v. De Cuir, 95 U.S.…
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ruling by Bradley
- In Joseph P. Bradley
…first major civil-rights case was United States v. Cruikshank, which he heard initially in federal circuit court in 1874. It concerned the Colfax massacre, an incident in 1873 when as many as 150 Black militia members were killed by a white militia in Colfax, Louisiana, during a dispute over control…
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