1868 : 14th Amendment adopted
(The one thing that is not mentioned here is the fact that the court ruling granting "personhood" to corporations was based on the 14th amendment.........Research it..........PEACE................Scott)
Following its ratification by the necessary three-quarters of U.S.
states, the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing to African Americans
citizenship and all its privileges, is officially adopted into the
U.S. Constitution.
Two years after the Civil War, the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 divided
the South into five military districts, where new state governments,
based on universal manhood suffrage, were to be established. Thus
began the period known as Radical Reconstruction, which saw the 14th
Amendment, which had been passed by Congress in 1866, ratified in July
1868. The amendment resolved pre-Civil War questions of African
American citizenship by stating that "all persons born or naturalized
in the United States...are citizens of the United States and of the
state in which they reside." The amendment then reaffirmed the
privileges and rights of all citizens, and granted all these citizens
the "equal protection of the laws."
In the decades after its adoption, the equal protection clause was
cited by a number of African American activists who argued that racial
segregation denied them the equal protection of law. However, in 1896,
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that states could
constitutionally provide segregated facilities for African Americans,
so long as they were equal to those afforded white persons. The Plessy
v. Ferguson decision, which announced federal toleration of the
so-called "separate but equal" doctrine, was eventually used to
justify segregating all public facilities, including railroad cars,
restaurants, hospitals, and schools. However, "colored" facilities
were never equal to their white counterparts, and African Americans
suffered through decades of debilitating discrimination in the South
and elsewhere. In 1954, Plessy v. Ferguson was finally struck down by
the Supreme Court in its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka.
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1932 : Bonus Marchers evicted by U.S. Army
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1976 : Worst modern earthquake
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(The one thing that is not mentioned here is the fact that the court ruling granting "personhood" to corporations was based on the 14th amendment.........Research it..........PEACE................Scott)
Following its ratification by the necessary three-quarters of U.S.
states, the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing to African Americans
citizenship and all its privileges, is officially adopted into the
U.S. Constitution.
Two years after the Civil War, the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 divided
the South into five military districts, where new state governments,
based on universal manhood suffrage, were to be established. Thus
began the period known as Radical Reconstruction, which saw the 14th
Amendment, which had been passed by Congress in 1866, ratified in July
1868. The amendment resolved pre-Civil War questions of African
American citizenship by stating that "all persons born or naturalized
in the United States...are citizens of the United States and of the
state in which they reside." The amendment then reaffirmed the
privileges and rights of all citizens, and granted all these citizens
the "equal protection of the laws."
In the decades after its adoption, the equal protection clause was
cited by a number of African American activists who argued that racial
segregation denied them the equal protection of law. However, in 1896,
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that states could
constitutionally provide segregated facilities for African Americans,
so long as they were equal to those afforded white persons. The Plessy
v. Ferguson decision, which announced federal toleration of the
so-called "separate but equal" doctrine, was eventually used to
justify segregating all public facilities, including railroad cars,
restaurants, hospitals, and schools. However, "colored" facilities
were never equal to their white counterparts, and African Americans
suffered through decades of debilitating discrimination in the South
and elsewhere. In 1954, Plessy v. Ferguson was finally struck down by
the Supreme Court in its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka.
history.com/tdih.do
1932 : Bonus Marchers evicted by U.S. Army
history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=5215
1976 : Worst modern earthquake
history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=6972
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