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The Forgotten Years of the Civil Rights Movement

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English - October 10, 2023 15:23 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 70 ratings
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Prize-winning historians Kate Masur, author of Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction, and Dylan Penningroth, author of the new book Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights, explore the central role of African Americans in the struggle for justice and equality long before the social movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.

Additional Resources

Kate Masur, Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Dylan Penningroth, Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

National Constitution Center Interactive Constitution, Article IV, Section 2: Movement Of Persons Throughout the Union, Privileges and Immunities Clause

National Constitution Center Interactive Constitution,14th Amendment Privileges or Immunities Clause

Dylan Penningroth, The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South

Kate Masur, An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C

Brief of Professors of History and Law as Amici Curia in Support of Respondents

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Prize-winning historians Kate Masur, author of Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction, and Dylan Penningroth, author of the new book Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights, explore the central role of African Americans in the struggle for justice and equality long before the social movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.


Additional Resources


Kate Masur, Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Dylan Penningroth, Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
National Constitution Center Interactive Constitution, Article IV, Section 2: Movement Of Persons Throughout the Union, Privileges and Immunities Clause
National Constitution Center Interactive Constitution,14th Amendment Privileges or Immunities Clause
Dylan Penningroth, The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South
Kate Masur, An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C
Brief of Professors of History and Law as Amici Curia in Support of Respondents



Stay Connected and Learn More

Continue the conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr.

Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly.

Please subscribe to Live at the National Constitution Center and our companion podcast We the People on Apple PodcastsSpotify, or your favorite podcast app.

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