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If the 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868, why did
it take nearly one hundred years for segregation to be eradicated in the South?


Sagot :

It took so long for the Supreme Court to apply the Fourteenth Amendment to state authorities because of a deeply-embedded principle at the heart of the original Bill of Rights that it was state governments that needed protection from federal overreach.

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