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Other Voices
By the early 1900s, Southern states had effectively silenced Black political voices through various voter suppression efforts. Although Black people did not have a say in civic government and in who got memorialized in public monuments, they did commemorate the Civil War within their own communities. For example, they held Emancipation Day parades celebrating the end of slavery and Memorial Day tributes to the nearly 200,000 Black men who fought in the US military. |