Historical Essays on the Fourteenth Amendment, the "Conspiracy Theory," and American Constitutionalism
by
Howard Jay Graham
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
In 1938, Howard Jay Graham, a deaf law librarian, successfully argued that the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment--ratified after the American Civil War to establish equal protection under the law for all American citizens regardless of race--were motivated by abolitionist fervor, debunking the notion...