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Defining Freedom (Pease help!)

1) What rights did free people feel that they should have?


2) What obstacles remained in the way of achieving these rights?


3) What questions remained about the status of freedpeople?

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Answer: 1) All human beings are born free and equal.

2) Black Americans faced legal impedimentsin the quest for civil rights. The ‘separate but equal’ decision of the Supreme Court saw blacks facing prejudice on a daily basis: in schools, in the workplace, in social and leisure activities and in politics.

3)The debate over the meaning of freedom for freedpeople is one of the primary conflicts in the history of the Reconstruction era.

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