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| Defeat of Reconstruction and the Betrayal of Black Freedom Part TwoWilde, Alanhttp://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/1040/reconstruction.html 
 Publisher:  Workers Vanguard
 Date Written:  21/02/2014
 Year Published:  2014
 Resource Type:  Article
 
 During Reconstruction, black people fought to assert their American-ness. Throughout the South, it was blacks and their allies who would march, parade and celebrate the Fourth of July, but not out of gross and vulgar American patriotism. Rather, it was part of a struggle to uphold the ideals of freedom and liberty that came with the Civil War and the promise of equality that came with Reconstruction.
 
 
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