The Civil Rights Movement and the Restoration of the Constitution

Lincoln's promise of a moral constitution was betrayed, because although the moral constitution remained on paper, it was effectively a dead letter. What happened after the supreme court repudiated the idea of separate but equal in the brown versus that bore decision in 19 54, was the beginning of a process of constitutional redemption. In this process, martin luther king junior emerged as, in a sense, the second l Lincoln - some one who stood for the moral constitution. The blood of the civil war had atoned for original sin. Everyone should recognize to day that we do not have the constitution of 17 87.