04/11/2024
“It is not accidental that the Civil Rights Movement is called the Second Reconstruction. Today we are still stumbling over issues of Reconstruction—citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment, refugees, immigration, racist campaign rhetoric, violence, women’s rights, who can use guns and for what purposes, terrorism, poll taxes and vote restriction laws, law enforcement and policing, incarceration, demagoguery, scapegoating, Nativism, and the rise of authoritarianism.”
The United States Constitution is and has been the cornerstone of American democracy. For more than a century, Americans have revered our governing document. But it was not always that way. In an 1854 speech at an Anti-Slavery Society rally in Boston, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison called the C...
