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Black queer Americans helped shape the 14th Amendment - here’s how

The 14th Amendment is often taught as a milestone of post–Civil War Reconstruction — but rarely do we hear about the ...
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A Black transgender woman’s testimony helped ratify the 14th Amendment. Then conservatives began attacking her identity

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frances Thompson - Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division On a Friday in June, Frances Thompson swore an ...
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A Black transgender woman’s testimony helped ratify the 14th Amendment. Then conservatives began attacking her identity

(CNN) — On a Friday in June, Frances Thompson swore an oath before a congressional committee and began to testify about what she’d experienced during a race riot in Memphis one month earlier. She told ...
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A Black transgender woman’s testimony helped ratify the 14th Amendment. Then conservatives began attacking her identity

The text of the 14th Amendment borrowed heavily from the language of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which declared all people born in the United States, except for Native Americans who did not pay ...