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Civil Rights: The Changes That Happened, The Changes That Didn't, and Those
That Did Their Best to Prevent Them From Happening.

A. The struggle for equality has been a battle fought for hundreds of years.
Documents such as The Declaration of Independence, dating back to 1776,
state that all men are created equal, and among these are Life, Liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness.

B. Surely we know that in fact all men were not seen as equal because issues such as
slavery and white superiority existed as well as discrimination issues that still
exist to some extent today.

C. In 1865, The 13th Amendment was established which abolished slavery, but did
not grant blacks equality.

D. Government was still extremely biased when meeting to make Amendments.
They were quoted as saying "We hold this to be a government of white......

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