Tangled: The Equal Protection Clause | Episode 5

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After the Civil War, what many Americans needed most was protection from violence. That’s what the Equal Protection Clause was meant to guarantee, but today the Clause does entirely different work. On this episode: a tour of the history and meaning of the Clause and how African-style hair braiders use it today to protect their right to earn an honest living.

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Guests

Evan Bernick, Georgetown Law

Pamela Ferrell, Cornrows & Co.

JoAnne Cornwell, Sisterlocks, San Diego State University

Donna Matias, The Entrepartners’ Advocate

Resources

Snubbed Landmark: Why United States v. Cruikshank (1876) Belongs at the Heart of the American Constitutional Canon, by James Gray Pope

The Original Sense of the (Equal) Protection Clause: Subsequent Interpretation and Application, by Christopher R. Green

The Plessy Myth: Justice Harlan and the Chinese Cases, by Gabriel J. Chin

The Lost Episode of Gong Lum v. Rice, by G. Edward White

Justice Holmes, Buck v. Bell, and the History of Equal Protection, by Stephen A. Siegel

Licensing Laws: A Historical Example of the Use of Government Regulatory Power against African Americans, David E. Bernstein

A Question of Progress and Welfare: The Jitney Bus Phenomenon in Atlanta, 1915-1925, by Julian C. Chambliss

The Jitneys, by Ross C. Eckert and George W. Hilton

The Canon of Rational Basis Review, Katie R. Eyer

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