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  2. Slave states and free states - Wikipedia

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    The American Civil War began in 1861. The 13th Amendment, effective December 6, 1865, abolished slavery in the U.S. The 13th Amendment, effective December 6, 1865, abolished slavery in the U.S. In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was ...

  3. American Civil Rights Union - Wikipedia

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    Sandra Little Covington, et al. arguing that (1) the district court used a novel theory of racial gerrymandering to review the legislature's map that removed all racial data (2) the district court imposed a de facto quota that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected last decade, and (3) the district court's decision erodes the federal judiciary's ...

  4. History of Michigan - Wikipedia

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    State of War: Michigan in World War II (U of Michigan Press, 1979) online; Dunbar, Willis F. (1969). All Aboard! A History of Railroads in Michigan. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans. OCLC 54650. Fine, Sidney. Expanding The Frontiers of Civil Rights": Michigan, 1948–1968 (2000) Fine, Sidney. Frank Murphy (3 vols. 1975–1984) online ...

  5. Michigan in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Before the Civil War, President James Buchanan took a weak position amid a looming South secession crisis. [1] Secretary of State Lewis Cass of Michigan, a 78-year-old elder statesman who had been Michigan's U.S. senator and governor of Michigan Territory, resigned from Buchanan's cabinet in protest, remarking that "he had seen the Constitution born and now feared he was seeing it die".

  6. Lawsuit claims University of Michigan violated protesters ...

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    The plaintiffs, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice, are asking the judge to issue an injunction to overturn the bans ...

  7. Border states (American Civil War) - Wikipedia

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    The War for the Union: The Improvised War 1861–1862 (Scribner, 1959). Phillips, Christopher. The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border (Oxford University Press, 2016). Robinson, Michael D. A Union Indivisible: Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South (University of North Carolina ...

  8. 1967 Detroit riot - Wikipedia

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    Composed mainly of confrontations between African American residents and the Detroit Police Department, it began in the early morning hours of Sunday July 23, 1967, in Detroit, Michigan. The precipitating event was a police raid of an unlicensed, after-hours bar, known as a blind pig , on the city's Near West Side.

  9. 24th Michigan Infantry Regiment - Wikipedia

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    The 24th Michigan Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was part of the Union Iron Brigade . It was chosen to be the honor guard for the Funeral of Abraham Lincoln .