Not Buying It: Glenn Loury, Ian Rowe, and Robert Woodson Debunk Myths about the Black Experience in America
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The Civil Rice Law in the Civil Rights Movement
In 18 65, you had four million people who had been enslaved persons suddenly emancipated and made citizens. They were largely illiterate. Some had skills, because it was in the slave owner's interest to have his property with skills, but most did not. So the the saga of african american history in post emancipation, is largely a saga of victory over the conditions in whichhe were left at the the onset of their liberationand i maintain that, properly understood, it is one of the great epochs in all american history. It really isis worth it is. That's wh we that a can i ask just first, why has this century of history been ignored,
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