US Civil Rights: the lynching of Emmett Till
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The History of the Civil Rights Movement
In the 1860s, formerly enslaved people and freed people who kind of lived at the margins pushed the question. Through black self-advocacy, black testimony, Americans got the Civil War amendments. The 15th gave universal manhood suffrage, which causes tensions with the feminist movement that would continue into 20th century.
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