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What Is Red Lining?
In the immediate wake of the war, you remember, after part one, we kind hended on slave patrols just turning right into police departments. Millions of black men had suddenly gained the right to vote for the first time. 700 black men were elected to public office including two senators and 14 embers of the house of representatives. And all across the south, groups of freedmen also formed militias, sometimes using the rifles with which they had served in the union army.