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Travis Crum (Washington University in St. Louis--School of Law) has posted The Lawfulness of the Fifteenth Amendment (Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 97, 2022) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: One of the most provocative debates in constitutional theory concerns...

The militarization of gun culture among both civilians and police reflects an increasingly energetic defense of white rule in the United States. This has been facilitated in part by an NRA-led reinterpretation of what the Second Amendment meant by “militia”.

Grant signed the Fifteenth Amendment and helped squash the Ku Klux Klan.

Hiding behind false objectivity will never ensure equal justice. Quite the reverse.

American civil rights movement, mass protest against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern U.S. that came to national prominence during the mid-1950s. Its roots were in the centuries-long efforts of enslaved Africans and their descendants to abolish slavery and resist racial oppression.

Find out how Frederick Douglass supported the early American women’s rights movement.

BILLINGS, Mont. – While Americans head to the polls on Election Day during National Native American Heritage month, groups in Montana look to engage Native Americans in building political and

A year ago, the Vermont General Assembly designated Sept. 23, 2020 as Alexander Twilight Day, marking the 225th anniversary of the birth of this African American trailblazer. The observance included

S. 4/H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, would give liberal bureaucrats in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) the power to veto changes of polling place locations, voter ID and registration requirements, and the boundary lines in redistricting in every single state.

Reconstruction, the period (1865–77) after the American Civil War during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded.