Constitution Week: Revising the Work of the Founders

In recognition of Constitution Week (September 17-23) the Paul Revere Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR), League of Women's Voters of Muncie and Delaware County, and Muncie Public Library invite you to a celebration of the U.S. Constitution. 

"Revising the Work of the Founders: The Reconstruction-Era Constitutional Amendments" 

The Civil War caused Americans to believe that the Founders’ work had been imperfect. They revised the Constitution by adding amendments to free enslaved people, grant them citizenship and rights, including the vote. Why did the post-Civil War generation write the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments? Join Dr. Nicole Etcheson for a discussion of the intended and unintended consequences of these amendments in the Reconstruction Era and today.