Search Results<span>After the Civil War, a major goal of the Radical Republicans in Congress was to gain voting rights for the newly freed slaves. Why did Radical Republicans oppose Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction plan? After Reconstruction ended in 1877 Jim Crow laws placed major restrictions on rights.</span>
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Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama. Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecuted as adults.
Mr. Stevenson has argued and won multiple cases at the United States Supreme Court, including a 2019 ruling protecting condemned prisoners who suffer from dementia and a landmark 2012 ruling that banned mandatory life-imprisonment-without-parole sentences for all children 17 or younger. Mr. Stevenson and his staff have won reversals, relief, or release from prison for over 135 wrongly condemned prisoners on death row and won relief for hundreds of others wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced.
Mr. Stevenson has initiated major new anti-poverty and anti-discrimination efforts that challenge inequality in America. He led the creation of two highly acclaimed cultural sites which opened in 2018: the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. These new national landmark institutions chronicle the legacy of slavery, lynching, and racial segregation, and the connection to mass incarceration and contemporary issues of racial bias. Mr. Stevenson is also a Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law.
Folowing World War II, The world's leaders promoted peace and reduced poverty by starting and participating in the United Nations. United Nations promoted cooperation between nations, instead of aggression. It is an intergovernmental organization created to keep international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international co-operation and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
