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The Mississippi legislature passing a resolution asking for federal aid after the attack on Vicksburg, scene in the Senate chamber

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History of the last quarter-century in the United States, 1870-1895.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library

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Keywords

  1. African American Politicians
  2. African Americans
  3. Courthouses
  4. Mississippi
  5. Vicksburg

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