1. Citizenship Of The Freed Slaves During And After The Reconstruction
... , President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring that "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free.? That was the time when bloody civil war was about to complete its 3 continuous year. ?In the Preliminary Proclamation, the President had said that he would declare slaves in designated territories "thenceforward, and forever free." In ... to the NAACP and National Urban League papers, the Library also holds papers of civil rights activists such as Thurgood Marshall, Roy Wilkins, Patricia Roberts Harris, A. Ph...
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