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Lani Frank, of Willistown, made her voice heard. Although the bill, even with a majority of the House supporting it, might have failed in the Republican Senate, she said that reps could have lobbied senators.

Lani Frank, of Willistown, made her voice heard. Although the bill, even with a majority of the House supporting it, might have failed in the Republican Senate, she said that reps could have lobbied senators.

The bill seeks to alter the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to provide special seats for women in the legislature.

The marriage of communist insurgency and drug trafficking inColombia has elevated a decades-old civil conflict into a dangerouswar.

Reconstruction and Its Aftermath The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freed African Americans in rebel states, and after the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment emancipated all U.S. slaves wherever they were. As a result, the mass of Southern blacks now faced the difficulty Northern blacks had confronted—that of a free people surrounded by many hostile whites. One freedman, Houston Hartsfield Holloway, wrote, “For we colored people did not know how to be free and the white people did ...