The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed an amicus brief urging a federal court to ...

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The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are known as the “Reconstruction Amendments,” but what happens if one or all of them get stripped from American history? Trump Taking a Page From a ...

In this way, Plessy rejected not only the Reconstruction Amendments, but the philosophy behind them. The amendments were built on the idea that the right approach to race issues was to protect all ...

Most of Reconstruction legislation is far ahead ... did not do it under the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment has still not been interpreted to allow Congress to bar private ...

The Reconstruction amendment, ratified in 1868, during the post-Civil War era, includes a citizenship clause that states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to ...

The film discusses the aftermath of the Civil War, focusing on the devastation in the South and the challenges faced by ...