... they must rely on strategic voting and the black community hasn't always been ideally located to capitalize on that), and intense party loyalties. The Black Vote Historically Ever since Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, African-Americans had been Republican. The GOP was the party of Lincoln, the party that had given them the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. The Republican Party supported blacks, whereas ... their freedom - not with the Democrats, who represented slavery and servitude, and coming into the 20th century, Jim Crow and segregation. And so, black Americans followed the Repu...

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... and had a huge impact on urban life in the United States. The Great Migration was a result of the extenuating circumstances that were a direct result of slavery and even after the Emancipation Proclamation, the unfair treatment and racism that African Americans experienced. This movement sometimes even ranged as far as Canada (Pourin' Down Rain). These African American people uprooted their lives in an ... ...

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... the new belief system but the only system that was right for the American people as a whole. Nearly two and a half centuries after slavery was introduced to the colonists, the Emancipation Proclamation declared that 4 million slaves in America were to be freed. This led the south into an angry frenzy and put the economy in jeopardy. The social status of the blacks ... ...

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... 20). W.E.B. Du Bois reminds us that former slaves had "a brief moment in the sun" before returning to a status akin to slavery. In many schools across the nation, the Emancipation Proclamation is praised as one of the greatest documents to ever happen to the black man. However, to see freedom, a civil war, in which many African-Americans died, had to be ... ...

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... ghettos. Black people have been struggling for centuries to reach equality in America. They fought against their status as slaves from the late 1600s until President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Soon after, slaves were liberated and given the right of citizens. By the late 1800s, prejudiced white Southerners passed state laws that went against new changes. These laws ... ...

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