Citizens
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During Reconstruction, when new African-American voters, new African-American
citizens
, began to exercise their power, they celebrated in jubilee parades that connected emancipation with their newfound right to vote.
More example sentences with word citizens
We need to re-educate ourselves around the things that matter, we need to work outside of our comfort zones more, and we need to be better
citizens
in our own backyard.
It stands out because this was the first time in American history that American
citizens
had to flee the land of their birth just to be recognized as the
citizens
that they had always been.
No other group of Americans has had to act like immigrants in order to be recognized as
citizens.
Remember, putatively free American
citizens.
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