A crucial and timely investigation of the Fourteenth Amendment and the impact it's had—and continues to have—on our rights as citizens, for readers of Rise Up! and This Is Our Constitution.
In 1954, the Supreme Court held in Brown v. Board of Education that separate schools for Black and white students are inherently unequal. In 1973, the Supreme Court guaranteed that abortion was a fundamental right in Roe v. Wade. And in 2015, the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage nationwide in Obergefell v. Hodges. What do these three famous cases, separated by decades, have in common? Each one was decided under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Born in the years after the Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments served as a sort of second Constitution, redefining what America would look like in the years after slavery ended. The Fourteenth was the most expansive, and the most complicated, of the three.
Further resources. Selected bibliography. Source notes. Index. Black-and-white diagrams, photographs, and reproductions.
Title alpha Whose Right Is It?: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equality
Category Nonfiction High Plus
Pages Count 240
Genre Nonfiction
Topics Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. Civil Rights Act of 1866. Civil rights. Constitutional history. Due process of law. Equality before the law. US politics and government,1865-1877.
Trim Size 9" x 6"
JLG Span Fall
Language English
Rights type Print
Publication date 2024-06-24
JLG Release Date Sep 2024
Minimum grade 9
Maximum grade 12
Reading level High
Format Print
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