Trump v. Barbara · ¶99

Still, most freed Blacks resisted the pressure to selfdeport. Instead, many started organizing toward the creation of the kind of Nation the colonizationists opposed— one that guaranteed liberty and justice for all. In the decades leading up to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, Black Americans organized and gathered at more than 600 local and national conventions across the country.There, delegates erected the political and intellectual scaffolding for the Fourteenth Amendment and, later, for the Black Civil Rights Movement more generally.

slip opinion, revised 7/01/26
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