... of the Joint Select Committee, began with events that took place in the United States at the end of the eighteen sixty-three Civil War. With the passing of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the subsequent Thirteenth Amendment, slavery was abolished and approximately four million slaves were now free. This caused a major uproar in the South, since many Southern states relied heavily on ... remained. African Americans in the United States would not see an end to their racial discrimination until the Civil Rights Movement between nineteen forty-five and nineteen seventy. Following the Ema...

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