To: x; ditto; WhiskeyPapa
A heroic American speaks.
Are you listening?
2 posted on
03/06/2002 7:49:11 PM PST by
one2many
To: Non-Sequitur
During the early 1900's, many members of the United Confederate Veterans (UCV) advocated awarding former slaves rural acreage and a home. There was hope that justice could be given those slaves that were once promised "forty acres and a mule" but never received any. In the 1913 Confederate Veteran magazine published by the UCV, it was printed that this plan "If not Democratic, it is [the] Confederate" thing to do. There was much gratitude toward former slaves, which "thousands were loyal, to the last degree", now living with total poverty in the big cities. Unfortunately, their proposal fell on deaf ears on Capitol Hill.
--http://www.37thtexas.org/html/BlkHist.html
4 posted on
03/06/2002 7:58:41 PM PST by
one2many
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