1) The 14th Amendment was significant to American Civil rights because of due process of law. Due process guarantees every person born or naturalized in the United States the same rights, regardless of race. It also notes that the every state must not abridge the “privileges and immunities" of citizens. Another section of the amendment states that no person can be denied “equal protection of the laws”. This was crucial to African Americans at the time, since it granted citizenship and equal civil rights to slaved emancipated after the Civil War. 2) Because of Plessy v Ferguson, “separate but equal” facilities and practices were legalized. But the Brown v Board of Education overturned that policy, claiming it violated the Fourteenth Amendment,
