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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture > Exhibitions Blacks and the United States ConstitutionFrom September 9, 2004 through September 20, 2004
Blacks and the United States Constitution examines the pivotal role of race in American Constitutional history, the black presence in American society, the dynamics of race relations in the United States, and the history of black freedom struggles. Highlights include proceedings of nineteenth-century black conventions, David Walker's fiery Appeal using natural rights philosophy to justify slave violence in pursuit of freedom, Secretary of State William H. Seward's signed certificate attesting to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Supreme Court's formal judgment in Brown v. Board of Education. |
