'The ratification of the Constitution, with its deference to states’ rights, unleashed a dynamic process in which the definitions of citizenship and civil rights had to be worked out.' HistoryAsItHappens podcast
This is the fourth installment in an occasional series that will focus on slavery, the Constitution, and the ongoing debate over the meaning of the American founding.
When President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he invoked the historic struggle to make America a more equal society. The civil rights movement to which Johnson referred did not begin, however, in the twentieth or even the nineteenth century.
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