<u>B. The Fourteenth </u>
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1868, during the Reconstruction era. It granted some civil and legal rights for black Americans as well as any other American citizen. In Section 1, it gives citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, which also included black people, guarantees all citizens the right of a due process of law and equal protection of the laws.
Yes in May 1961, where a series of civil rights actions in which integrated groups of activists rode a commercial buses for example is a grey hound and trail ways, regardless of the laws in the individual states they passed through. These were designed to test that ruling and help overturn jim crow laws in southern states. these are just some parts of the history that we should always remember.
<span> President Lincoln rescinded Fremont's emancipation proclamation, fearing it might push other Border States (slave states loyal to the Union) into the Confederate camp. Staff corruption, opposition from Missouri’s influential Blair family, and military defeats caused Lincoln to relieve Fremont of his command on November 2, 1861.</span>
