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African American inequalities of rights and civil abuses have been part of our country’s infamous history even before the birth of our nation. Those unfortunate discriminatory practices followed their “slave” status, even when the “negro” was freed from slavery or involuntary servitude as stated in the Thirteenth Amendment, and ratified on December 6, 1865.

On July 28, 1868, the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The amendment grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War.

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