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  2. Ten percent plan - Wikipedia

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    The ten percent plan, formally the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (13 Stat. 737), was a United States presidential proclamation issued on December 8, 1863, by United States President Abraham Lincoln, during the American Civil War.

  3. Remembering Reconstruction - Wikipedia

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    Remembering Reconstruction: Struggles over the Meaning of America's Most Turbulent Era, published in 2017 by Louisiana State University Press, edited by Carole Emberton and Bruce E. Baker, with an introduction by W. Fitzhugh Brundage, is a collection of ten essays by historians of the Reconstruction era who examine the different collective memories of different social groups from the time of ...

  4. Southern Homestead Act of 1866 - Wikipedia

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    The land was initially in parcels of 80-acre (0.32 km 2) (half-quarter section) until June 1868, and thereafter parcels of 160-acre (0.65 km 2) (quarter section, or one quarter of a square mile), and homesteaders were required to occupy and improve the land for five years before acquiring full ownership.

  5. Reconstruction in South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    The South Carolina Land Commission was afflicted with mismanagement and corruption during its existence. Despite this, by 1876, an estimated 14,000 families/70,000 African Americans had received tracts of land distributed by the Land Commission. [8] By 1890 the Land Commission was bankrupt and its remaining lands were distributed to white ...

  6. Dunning School - Wikipedia

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    In 1935, W. E. B. DuBois attacked the premises of the Dunning School in Black Reconstruction in America, setting forth ideas such as the active agency of blacks in the era, that the struggle over control of black labor was central to the politics of the era, and that Reconstruction was a time of great promise and many accomplishments, the ...

  7. The committee's decisions were recorded in its journal, but the journal did not reveal the committee's debates or discussions, which were deliberately kept secret. [7] Once the committee had completed work on the proposed Fourteenth Amendment, several of its members spoke out, including Senator Howard, who gave a long speech to the full Senate in which he presented "in a very succinct way, the ...

  8. Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials - Wikipedia

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    Chart of public symbols of the Confederacy and its leaders as surveyed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, by year of establishment [note 1]. Most of the Confederate monuments on public land were built in periods of racial conflict, such as when Jim Crow laws were being introduced in the late 19th century and at the start of the 20th century or during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ...

  9. Memory, Truth and Justice processes - Wikipedia

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    Memory, Truth and Justice processes (Spanish: Procesos de Memoria, Verdad y Justicia) is the name with which the processes that culminate in trials for crimes against humanity carried out against those responsible for human rights violations committed in the context of state terrorism during the last civil-ecclesiastical-military dictatorship in Argentina between 1976 and 1983 are referred to.