Sep 16, 2011 · Constitution Week Symposium, Fifteenth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Reconstruction Amendments, Thirteenth Amendment This post is part of an ACSblog Constitution …

Jan 23, 2019 · That is exactly the kind of unequal floor for free labor that the Thirteenth Amendment was intended to abolish. As Professor James Pope has written, the Amendment set a floor for free labor …

Dec 3, 2020 · Legislation under Congress’s Thirteenth Amendment powers that explicitly combats discrimination rooted in slavery is an appropriate and major step in that direction. The Amendment, …

Feb 6, 2023 · The Meaning of the Abolition Amendments For the freedmen and their abolitionist allies, the Thirteenth Amendment’s prohibition of slavery meant not merely to eradicate the prior institution …

Feb 14, 2023 · Douglass’ theory of the Constitution was most readily reflected in the language and text of the Fourteenth Amendment, which famously extended the equal protection of the law to “all …

Feb 3, 2025 · Join ACS for part two of a two part screening of "13th". "13th" is a documentary directed by Ava DuVernay that discusses the American prison-industrial complex and the intersection of race …

Feb 14, 2011 · Slavery did not end until the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 and the adoption of the 13th Amendment in 1865. The original Constitution lacked an equal protection …

13th, the title of Ava DuVernay’s extraordinary documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for …

Oct 16, 2020 · Labor activists in the 19 th and 20 th centuries invoked the 13th Amendment when they advocated for regulations that would protect their right to organize, establish minimum wage and …

Jan 14, 2018 · For King, the First Amendment, sometimes referred to as the “People’s Darling Privilege,” was tied to the promise of the Fourteenth Amendment that all persons in the United States were …