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African Americans Civil rights History 19th century African Americans Legal status, laws, etc History 19th century African Americans Politics and government 19th century Civil rights movements United States History 19th century Droits de l'homme États-Unis Interprétation Ouvrages pour la jeunesse Equality before the law Equality before the law United States Privileges and immunities United States United States. 14th Amendment. Égalité devant la loi Ouvrages pour la jeunesseSchwartz, Joanna C.
Summary: "An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police misconduct, from one of the country's leading scholars on policing"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344.7305 SCHHudson, David L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 342.085 HUDBajramovic, Hana
Summary: "The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, known as the "equality amendment," was passed in 1868 during the time after the Civil War to help protect the rights and freedoms of Black Americans. In the centuries that followed, the amendment grew to protect the rights of women, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people as well. But in recent years, the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment has shifted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 342.73 BAJ1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 342.73 BAJ
Masur, Kate
Summary: "A groundbreaking history of the antebellum movement for equal rights that reshaped the institutions of freedom after the Civil War. The half century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over freedom as well as slavery: what were the arrangementsof free society, especially for African Americans? Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted black codes that discouraged the settlement and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021