While the 13th Amendment abolished slavery, it did nothing regarding the legal status of the former slaves. The 14th Amendment gave them citizenship and did much more. At the end of the American Civil War Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 granting US citizenship to former slaves. The constitutional authority off Congress to […]
The Negro and the Constitution by Martin Luther King, Jr.
The oratory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. moved people to action to address the wrongs of racial discrimination. He is best known for his “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28, 1963, given at the Lincoln Memorial before an estimated audience of 250,000 and millions more on television and radio in a exemplary […]