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Eric Foner, a historian and professor at Columbia University who specializes in the Civil War, Reconstruction and slavery, said the 14th amendment enabled Black people to legally enjoy ...

The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction amendment, because it was added to the Constitution after the Civil War in 1868. That places it at an important historical crossroads, when ...

the 14th Amendment was finally ratified so that all states could have representation in the Congress. One of the original Reconstruction Amendments, it originally was used to address the rights of ...

One of them is the 14th Amendment. Live updates ... It was adopted in 1868 during the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War, aiming to protect rights of formerly enslaved people in the ...

The other two Reconstruction Amendments are the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The Thirteenth Amendment is important because of its simplicity: Slavery of all forms for free persons was ...