How Did The United States Constitution Protect People Of All Color

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The United States Constitution was designed to protect people of every color, but it was undermined through Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow Laws, and other tragic events. During this era, African American people were treated like there inhumane and denied certain rights they were entitled to. Justice was supposed to be establish by the United States Constitution to protect everyone that was treated unfairly, wronged, and even murdered. Instead the United States Constitution benefited certain people that was not of color. The United States Constitution was supposed to provide justice, freedom, peaceful relations between people and state, and protect people of all color no matter what. The United States Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787 by

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