The Yale Law Journal

Lyle Cherneff

Note

Remembering In re Turner: Popular Constitutionalism in the Reconstruction Era

Lyle Cherneff

Relying on insights from Critical Race Theory and feminist legal theory, this Note presents a historical account of the underexamined movement to end racialized apprenticeship laws in the post-slavery era. The Note argues that our shared constitutional memory has been artificially narrowed by underc…