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Renewed Fight for Liberty By John Henrik Clarke

#JohnHenrikClarke  #African-American  #BlackAmerican #Black History # RenewedFightforLiberty The Emancipation Proclamation created official freedom for a large number of Blacks, but no immediate protection for that freedom. Some old troubles ended while new troubles began.  The attitudes of slavery still lingered in the minds of many Whiles, both in the North and in the South.  This pseudo-racial democracy continued for  approximately eleven years before the political "horse-trading" between the South and  the North crystallized during the presidential campaign of 1874-75. This point marked  the beginning of a period that could be called the betrayal of the era known a  "Reconstruction." During the last twenty-five years of the 19th century, Blacks in the United States were forced to renew their fight in pursuit of liberty. Many Blacks who had been duly elected to public office were physically barred from entering some of the legislat...