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What Happens In Vagueness Stays In Vagueness: The United States Constitution's Ideas On Race, Austin Clements
What Happens In Vagueness Stays In Vagueness: The United States Constitution's Ideas On Race, Austin Clements
History Class Publications
The United States’ Constitution, while it may not explicitly discuss race in detail, has echoes of race throughout both its language and its history. Even during the origination of the Constitution, the inclusion of slavery was a hotly contested subject among the authors of the Constitution. The United States’ Constitution only uses the words “race” and “color” once and that is in the Fifteenth Amendment, which essentially gave black Americans the right to vote. While the US Constitution may not explicitly talk about race much, I argue that race is a present theme throughout the Constitution as well as behind …
Eugenics, Margaret Ann Donnell
Eugenics, Margaret Ann Donnell
History Class Publications
Naturally, and quite understandably, people avoid discussing the dark periods of human history, specifically the inconceivable acts of dehumanization imposed on their fellow man.
Individuals struggle to understand, sometimes simply because they cannot fathom, how a person—and in some cases, an institution—can manipulate and devalue another human being or groups of people. Often, the standards by which those with the “authority” to determine the lack of worth of the individual or population are arbitrary and subjective.
All of this is relevant in a conversation over the eugenics movement of the United States, occurring in the early to mid-twentieth century.
When …
Register Of Complaints: 1865-1868, Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands
Register Of Complaints: 1865-1868, Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands
Freedmen's Bureau: Arkansas Field Office Records
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Register Of Marriages: 1865-1867, Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands
Register Of Marriages: 1865-1867, Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands
Freedmen's Bureau: Arkansas Field Office Records
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Letters Sent, Letters And Orders Received, Endorsements Sent And Received: 1865-1868, Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands
Letters Sent, Letters And Orders Received, Endorsements Sent And Received: 1865-1868, Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands
Freedmen's Bureau: Arkansas Field Office Records
No abstract provided.
Indentures Of Apprenticeship: 1866, Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands
Indentures Of Apprenticeship: 1866, Bureau Of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands
Freedmen's Bureau: Arkansas Field Office Records
No abstract provided.