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Date: 2015-04-16 12:36:47
United States
Reconstruction Era of the United States
Voting Rights Act
Radical Republicans
Andrew Johnson
Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Reconstruction Acts
Freedman
Disfranchisement
Politics of the United States
Reconstruction
History of the United States

The Voting Rights Act of 1965: Background and Overview

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