... test; he recited the Constitution at the request of the testors! The KKK eliminated him (64). The Solid South was no less than "totalitarian (Duncan 73)." Then came the Progressive Era in the early twentieth century. Booker T. Washington, called by Boyer and others as "the nation's foremost black leader from the 1890s until . . . 1915," hypothesized that blacks could create ... attacks; the general attitude of the government then was "What more do you people want? (P. McKissack and F. McKissack 62)" Lastly, African-Americans developed a determination for progress during the Progressive...

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... Act of 1871 and the formation 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 ... of their terrorism as being "any blacks [that] challenged white supremacy by daring to vote, teach, or acquire land, and carpetbaggers, white Northerners who came to the South after the war to seek their fortunes or ...

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