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[https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/largest-antiwar-protest/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT 1961] | [https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/largest-antiwar-protest/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT 1961] | ||
April 17, 1965 was the largest anti-war protest to have been held in Washington, D.C. up to that time. | April 17, 1965 was the largest anti-war protest to have been held in Washington, D.C. up to that time. | ||
=====Racial Violence after the Civil War, 1865-1876===== | |||
[https://eji.org/report/reconstruction-in-america/ by Equal Justice Initiative] | |||
In 1865, after two and a half centuries of brutal enslavement, Black Americans had great hope that emancipation would finally mean real freedom and opportunity. Most formerly enslaved people in the United States were remarkably willing to live peacefully with those who had held them in bondage despite the violence they had suffered and the degradation they had endured. | |||
