Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

As the dust settled after the Civil War, the United States looked to rebuild and bring back together their broken country. In the South, the people were defeated and under the control of the North which resulted in the lives of the freed slaves becoming somewhat improved. But it was not long after that the ex-confederate states started to revert to their ways of treating the blacks as inferior. They passed a series of laws to attempt to restrict black’s freedom and continue to keep them as a…

Color Barrier Broken The end of slavery should have been the beginning of a better way of life for Black Americans, instead it sparked a whole new set of problems. Americans today do not fully understand the hardships and troubles many faced one hundred and twenty years ago, during the time of legal segregation. Biased media and government verdicts tore apart countless Negro families. Intelligence, capability, and talent are all qualities both Caucasians and African Americans share. But…

In 1954, an extensive amount of the United States schools were racially segregated, due to the legal decision of Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1896, which stated the segregated facilities were constitutional as long as they were equal to each other. In the early 1950’s NAACP lawyers conveyed action lawsuits on behalf of African American children and their families in the states Kansas, South Carolina, Delaware and Virginia to allow black children the right to attend in all white school. The US Supreme…

Americans. Congress established the Freedmen 's Bureau to help former slaves and enacted some legal protections for African Americans. In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing citizenship and legal equality to all people born in the United States, including former slaves, and in 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified, granting black men the right to vote. Many white southerners opposed efforts to aid and protect emancipated slaves and formed…

employment. The Equal Protection Clause is very similar to the Affirmative Action programs in that it too protects citizens from discrimination based on things such as race, religion, and gender. This clause is also part of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and took effect in…

“Economic regulation is defined as a type of government regulation that sets prices or conditions on entry of firms into an industry. Economic regulation also includes the regulation of financial firms. Economic regulation is not the only type of government regulation, as the discussion of the environmental regulations”. (http://college.cengage.com/economics/taylor/econ/3e/micro/students/add_topics/ch12_econ_reg.html). For the time frame of 1865-1950 there have been several historical events…

Congress, and the Constitution. I worked on the case Fisher v. University of Texas, rooting back to 1977 when Texas legislation made a law that required the University of Texas give admission to all high school seniors who positioned in the top ten percent of their class. When discovering the lack of diversity in the their college 's undergraduates and state populace, the University of Texas chose to change its previously unbiased racial acceptances . The new approach allowed all in-state…

The United States prides themselves as being the land of the free, a place where people can come and live the American dream. Our country hasn’t always been free for everyone, though. African-Americans have not always been free; they were slaves before the Civil War and after the Civil War, for about 100 years, they were still treated unfairly and punished for not being inferior to the whites in their community. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments were violated by the federal,…

Danville, Virginia, was pronounced dead by lethal-injection at approximately 9:13 p.m. (Crawford 74). Being that 46 executions took place in 2010, Teresa Lewis’s case would seem indifferentiable to the others; however, evaluations of Lewis’s mental state incited controversy based on the morality of her case (“The Death Penalty…”). The controversy erupted after Lewis’s defense lawyer filed a position for clemency briefly after disclosing that she had an I.Q. of 72, providing the justification…

of the few. The masses were not catered for because the only goal of the manufacturing companies is to make a profit. In order to proffer a lasting solution to the plight of the poor during this period, the constitution of the United States was amended. However, the 14th amended constitution only helped the wealthy and businesses to boom without consideration for the less privileged. Even though the industrial revolution brought about increase…