The period immediately following the
Civil War was a time of great hope for Blacks in America. It was also a time of
momentous (21) change, as the nation sought to (22)
those liberties enshrined in the Bill of Rights to all Americans,
Black and White. The Thirteenth Amendment (23) slavery, the
Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed all citizens equal protection of the laws, and
the Fifteenth Amendment declared that no one could be (24)
the right to vote " (25) race, color, or precious
condition of servitude." In subsequent decades, (26) , it
became all too apparent, at least to Blacks and a (n) (27)
small number of concerned Whites, that the promise contained in these
amendments were not being (28) By century’s end, racial
segregation was still an inescapable fact of American life, in the North
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