p. 308-10 What was the impression the former president of the Confederacy had of US District Judge Henry B. Brown?
p. 311. What was the “oppressive” bill Davey, a British Southerner was referring to?
p. 312. What legal anarchy was referencing HBB?
p. 313-316 Albion Turgee was a Northerner in North Carolina. Why did he oppose Sumner’s Bill?
p. 317-320. Albion saw the Reconstruction as a failure. Why? What method did he promote?
p. 321-27 What happened to Albion’s political aspirations?
p. 261: Why was William Nichols waiting for the Car 132 of the New Orleans’ City Railroad Company?
p. 262 Why and how was the Tribune campaigning against “star cars”?
p. 263 What does the author mean when he writes “Could les gens de couleur be trusted as allies”?
p. 264 What unresolved question about the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was sought to be solved in Recorder Louis Gastinel’s courtroom on April 30?
p. 265 How did the case of William Nichols and that of Joseph Guillaume resemble?
p. 266 – The author describes entertainment in New Orleans. What is striking to you from his description?
p. 267 What happened along a Mardi Gras route, on both sides of Rampart near Congo Square, early May?
p. 268 What was the Railroad Company’s response to the preceding day’s riotous activity?
p. 269 How do you feel about Ogledon’s decision about private individuals able to make any rule “they deemed proper”?
p. 270 What was Mary Miles’ case about? Where was her case heard?
p. 271- 272. What was the case Derry v. Lowry about?
p. 273-274 What is your opinion about stare decisis as it transpires in the Mary Miles case?
p. 274- 275 What is your opinion about the “vexed subject of social equality” as discussed at the 1868 Louisiana Constitutional Convention?
p. 276 Is banning denigrating and humiliating social mores tantamount to mandating “social equality”?
p. 277-278 Explain the content of Article 13.