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Anything less than ________ would betray the civil wars meaning, black spokesman insisted

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The black spokesman was advocating for full citizenship of African Americans. He meant that, since the civil war freed the slaves, and hundreds of thousands of people died, it would make their deaths meaningless if blacks remained an oppressed underclass that were unable to vote.
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