African American turnout was especially high in the Black Belt, where slave plantations were concentrated in the state.
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The Line Between Good and Evil
Here is what’s wrong with Trump’s claim that there were very fine people on both sides in Charlottesville.
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Lincoln’s Forgotten Middle Years
As the nation was moving apart, he was coming together.
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The Cycle of Deconstruction to Restore the Old Order
Historically, major steps toward equality have led to a backlash.
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Introduction: Race, History, and Obama’s Second Term
In the summer of 2011, under siege from both the left and the right for his efforts to broker a budget deal to avoid a debt default, Barack Obama defended his leadership with a telling historical analogy. He noted that the Emancipation Proclamation, a copy of which hangs on his Oval Office wall, outlawed slavery […]
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Thenceforward and Forever Free, Mostly
Deserving of neither blanket condemnation nor blind exaltation, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was a brave compromise.
Posted inMagazine
Deconstructing Reconstruction
The tumultuous decade that followed the Civil War failed to enshrine black voting and civil rights, and instead paved the way for more than a century of entrenched racial injustice.
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America’s Twentieth-Century Slavery
The horrifying, little-known story of how hundreds of thousands of blacks worked in brutal bondage right up until World War II.
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A Second Emancipation
One hundred years after Lincoln signed the Proclamation, Martin Luther King Jr. tried unsuccessfully to get President John F. Kennedy to issue a second one. That failure changed the course of history.
