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Lost Black History
After the Civil War ended in 1865, the 11 southern states had to abolish slavery to be readmitted to the Union. The Black Codes implemented a mendacious, fraudulent ploy by the South to secure their goal of maintaining White superiority. The Congressional Rights Foundation describes these reprobate acts from the South as duplicitous chicanery. […]