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Podcast: Bryan MatthewsUnfiltered and Unapologetic
Episode: The School to Prison Pipeline
Description: Following the Civil War and emancipation of enslaved African Americans, Congress passed three Constitutional Amendments in the 1860s, known as the Reconstruction Amendments, that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude (13th), provided citizenship to those born or naturalized in the U.S. regardless of race (14th), and guaranteed the right of all citizens to vote (15th). The following decade, known as the Reconstruction era (1863 - 1877), was the attempt by the U.S. Government to address the inequities and the protect the rights of newly enfranchised African Americans.
However, the 1880s marked the resurgence of white supremacy in the...