Louisiana Law Review
Keywords
United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment, Equality laws, American Civil War, 1861-1865
Abstract
The article investigate the creation and destruction of the Fourteenth Amendment during the Civil War and how the U.S. Supreme Court undid most of the gains of the Fourteenth Amendment toward equality and equal rights for black citizens.
Repository Citation
Orville Vernon Burton,
The Creation and Destruction of the Fourteenth Amendment Duringthe Long Civil War,
79 La. L. Rev.
(2019)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/lalrev/vol79/iss1/9