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What happened in 1868?
by isaacfrond 4y ago
What happened in 1868?
- 082349872349872 4y agohttps://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-14/ https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-14/ Among other changes, the Original Constitutional 3/5 of a person language got deprecated. It starts by talking about "persons", but the right to vote was still reserved for "male inhabitants". Women's suffrage (19A) was a half century in the future, and at the point I emigrated from the Old Country, the ERA still had not been ratified. Haven't checked to see if you all have ratified it since. Edit: I suspect the reason the Civil Rights Movement was such a big deal in the 1960s is that folks looked around and said to themselves "100 years of Reconstruction, and we're still lynching?"