How black grassroots politics led to the 14th Amendment and black citizenship
- Written by Frederick Knight, Associate Professor of History, Morehouse College
Blacks faced violent attacks led by white Confederates after the Civil War ended.Wikimedia Commons
In 2008, the United States elected its first African-American president. But in the last year of Obama’s final term, the paradox and tragedy of race is as apparent now as any time in recent American history. A poll released earlier this month...
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