Reconstruction era

The article will trace the interrelations between Kabul's constructed spatiality and the implications of women's walks through the landscape in two primary texts – Taran Khan's Shadow City: A Woman …

The Index of Systemic Trends 2024 provides a comprehensive analysis of the state of the U.S. political economy, tracking a wide range of social, economic, and environmental trends over the …

policies, many of which date back to the Reconstruction era. • Three out of four disenfranchised people …

1899), the Georgia Supreme Court similarly confirmed the mandatory nature of the duty to certify and underscored the risks of weaponizing the certification process: It certainly can not be doubted …

Georgia Supreme Court precedents from the post-Reconstruction era and continuing through the 20th century, …

• The fourth chapter, Preventing the manipulation of courts, explores how courts can be manipulated to serve anti-democratic purposes and outlines reforms to prevent that from happening including preventing judge …

an oath to the Constitution. Case law from Reconstruction era disqualifications makes clear that Section …

While the minimum wage has increased in various cities and states compared to the Federal minimum wage of $7.25/hour, wages are still low, and after years of fighting for a …

Black people in the United States since the Reconstruction era. From February 2022 to October 2023, BFL …

Policy on Voting Rights in Global Perspective 20 HOW THE UNITED STATES COMPARES TO THE REST OF THE WORLD The sweeping nature of disenfranchisement in the United States is out …

disenfranchisement laws date back to the Post-Reconstruction era following the end of the Civil A felony conviction …

Black entrepreneurs face persistent systemic barriers to starting, maintaining, and growing businesses. Education, training, and workforce development organizations (including higher education institutions, nonprofit organizations, and local government agencies) can be …

rooted in its culture and economy. Since the Reconstruction era, Black businesses have played a pivotal role …

The failure of the Freedman's Savings Bank (FSB), one of the only Black-serving banks in the early post-bellum South, was an economic catastrophe and one of the great episodes of …

Savings Bank Established in 1865 during the Reconstruction Era, the primary stated goal of the Freed- man’s … troops occupied 163 counties throughout the Reconstruction Era. The timing of pay disbursement and ease … presence of Black troops, contraband camps, or Reconstruction-era US troops to directly affect either the baseline …

This article considers a subset of lawsuits in which emancipated people sued to have their enslavers’ bequests to them honored. It contends that we should see these suits as contests …

part from the unique circumstances of the Reconstruction era. Free from enslavement, Black Americans … the same can be said of litigants in the Reconstruction era. The very act of litigation countered civic … Citizenship, and the Black Fam- ily in the Reconstruction Era Courtroom.” Law and History Review 37(1): …

Since the end of the civil rights movement, the United States has not made meaningful progress toward closing the racial wealth gap. Without deliberate policy intervention, this gap will likely …

40, draws its name from the unfulfilled Reconstruction- era promise of forty acres of land for the formerly …