The Supreme Court obstructed Fourteenth Amendment rights for black Americans

Evidence

If the Thirteenth Amendment was not being used to help the newly freed, neither was the Fourteenth. Passed by Congress to bolster the rights of this vulnerable group, the amendment provides: “the states are forbidden from making or enforcing any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, or shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or deny to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Yet the Supreme Court proved to be a significant obstacle in securing basic rights for black Americans under the Fourteenth Amendment as well. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 381

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The US Supreme Court’s Milliken ruling barred suburban-wide desegregation remedies — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1186; The Reconstruction Amendments aimed to equalize rights and suffrage for Black Americans. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 260; The Fourteenth Amendment’s first sentence embodies decades of Black activism — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 691 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The US Supreme Court’s Milliken ruling barred suburban-wide desegregation remedies — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1186; The Reconstruction Amendments aimed to equalize rights and suffrage for Black Americans. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 260; The Fourteenth Amendment’s first sentence embodies decades of Black activism — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 691 (+4 more)