Opinion | What to Watch Out for in Trump’s Reelection Campaign
“Here are four things Trump tried to do to flip the election in his favor—and examples of how both individuals and democratic institutions stopped him,” Richard L. Abel writes.
“Here are four things Trump tried to do to flip the election in his favor—and examples of how both individuals and democratic institutions stopped him,” Richard L. Abel writes.
“As these (Confederate) monuments were erected, the vote increased for members of the then-racist Democratic Party, and people turned out to vote in lower numbers in predominantly Black areas,” Alexander N. Taylor writes.
On June 19, 1865, Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, first heard the word that freedom for the enslaved had come. “There were speeches, sermons and shared meals, mostly held at Black churches, the safest places to have such celebrations,” history professor Kris Manjapra writes. “But the emancipation that took place in Texas that day in 1865 was just the latest in a series of emancipations that had been unfolding since the 1770s.”
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