Title:	Count them One by One
Authors:	Gordon A., Martin
Keywords:	African Americans—Suffrage—Mississippi—History
Issue Date:	2010
Publisher:	Mississippi
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
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9382
ISBN:	978-1-60473-790-5
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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