Welcoming Ruin: The Civil Rights Act of 1875

About Alan FriedlanderRichard Allan Gerber

Alan Friedlander Ph.D. University of California Berkeley (1982) is Professor Emeritus in History at Southern Connecticut State University. He is the author of Processus Bernardi Delitiosi: The Trial of Fr. Bernard Délicieux (American Philosophical Society 1996) and Hammer of the Inquisitors: Brother Bernard Délicieux and the Struggle Against the Inquisition in Fourteenth-Century France (Brill 2000). Richard Allan Gerber Ph.D. University of Michigan (1967) is Professor Emeritus in History at Southern Connecticut State University and Adjunct Professor in History at Charter Oak State College. He is the author of The System: The American Constitution in Historical Perspective (Cengage Learning 2009) and Revolution and Union: The American Dilemma 1763-1877 (Cengage Learning 2008). He has received a Scholarship award from the Organization of American Historians and the Teaching Excellence award from Lehman College (CUNY).