Count them One by One

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DC Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Gordon A., Martin	-
dc.date.accessioned	2018-10-11T12:47:20Z	-
dc.date.available	2018-10-11T12:47:20Z	-
dc.date.issued	2010	-
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-60473-790-5	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9382	-
dc.description	On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States, the first African American to win that office. How did it happen? It can’t be traced to his stirring announcement of candidacy in Springfield, Illinois, two years earlier, or even to his memorable keynote address in Boston at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Certainly his campaign organization was superb. But what gave any African American the opportunity to put together such a broad-based popular coalition? The antecedents of his victory go back to the Civil War and its aftermath. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, which were ratified in the flush of Reconstruction between 1865 and 1870, were the first amendments to give our federal government new powers. The Thirteenth abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. Due process and equal protection were guaranteed to all by the Fourteenth	-
dc.language	en	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Mississippi	en_US
dc.subject	African Americans—Suffrage—Mississippi—History	en_US
dc.title	Count them One by One	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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