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Correcting The Record On The "3/5s Compromise" Friday, May 7, 2021 Members of the Tennessee State Legislature: We are writing today to voice our disdain and dismay over the offensive comments given by Rep. Justin Lafferty, who stated on the House Floor in reference to the Three-Fifths Compromise that it, "was a direct effort to ensure that southern states never got the population necessary to continue the practice of slavery everywhere else in the country." He then implied this was for the purpose of ending slavery. Other legislators were complicit in this effort by giving Rep. Lafferty...
The man who impeached a racist and fought for Black equality MSNBC 1/18/2021 © Anjali Nair Image: Portrait of Thaddeus Stevens with blue overlay against a yellow background Thaddeus Stevens is a name that not nearly enough Americans have heard. It never popped up when I was learning history in school, using textbooks that still described the "carpetbaggers" of Reconstruction-era America as sly Northern villains. Stevens, an early Republican member of the House of Representatives, served in an era when his clear moral stance was often shunned. He was a civil rights icon and the exact kind...
Social justice and impeachment: Thaddeus Stevens was a trailblazer for both Ornery, witty and devoted to Black equality, Stevens was a real ally. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens fought for equality after the Civil War.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty Images Jan. 18, 2021, 10:32 AM UTC Thaddeus Stevens is a name that not nearly enough Americans have heard. It never popped up when I was learning history in school, using textbooks that still described the "carpetbaggers" of Reconstruction-era America as sly Northern villains. Stevens, an early Republican member of the House of Representatives, served in an era ...
O N APRIL 13TH 1873 a group of armed white men rode into Colfax, Louisiana, a town around 200 miles north-west of New Orleans. Included in their number were members of the Ku Klux Klan and Knights of the White Camelia, both terrorist groups devoted to maintaining white rule across the American South. They were coming to seize the courthouse, then occupied by black and white Republicans who claimed victory in a disputed election the year before (Republicans were the party of Abraham Lincoln and emancipation). Republicans called on their supporters, most of whom in Colfax were black, to defend ...