Tag: emancipation proclamation
Dr. Martin Luther King’s Speech on the Emancipation Proclamation During the Centennial of the Civil War
1961 to 1965 the nation commemorated the Centennial of the Civil War. While many events presented over those four years were celebrations of white bravery…
States Considered Giving Blacks Right to Sue for Being Held as Slaves after Emancipation Proclamation?
William Dunning in his Essays on the Civil War and Reconstruction and Related Topics (1897, 2nd ed. 1904) says that at the various Southern state Constitutional…
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