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For a short time following the Civil War, African-Americans in the state of Virginia were granted the right to run for office and vote for delegates under the new reconstruction law. Freed slaves in Hampton lined up from sun-up to sundown at the polls to vote. In 1867, 92 percent of eligible freed blacks voted […]
By the mid-sixties, the civil rights movement showed signs of change as a younger, more radical base emerged. This week in 1966, Stokely Carmichael, later known as Kwame Ture, assumed the role of chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and shifted the group from its earlier idealogy of nonviolence and racial inclusion. Carmichael, then […]