History of the United States I / Unit 16 USH1 2291 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Black Political Achievement
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The idea
Union Leagues, northern fraternal groups promoting Union loyalty, expanded south and became political clubs and Black community centres.
In practice
Leagues helping build schools and churches and enrolling newly enfranchised voters.
Where people slip
In the eighteen seventies fifteen Black members sat in the House and two in the Senate, Blanche K. Bruce and Hiram Revels, both from Mississippi.
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