Neely turned out well document, well researched books on both subjects. The fact that he demonstrated that civil rights were non-existent in the south and the lack of a Supreme Court denied southern citizens any protection from the excesses of the Davis regime, are what you are complaining about.
Neely is a hostile, South-bashing wonk who plays the wonk game of "let's pile up the paper, and whoever piles up the most paper wins, and everyone else has to shut up".
He's playing to back up Foner and McPherson's play on driving the South into the sea historiographically.