Anything less than would betray the civil war’s meaning, black spokesmen insisted.

Anything less than full citizenship would betray the Civil War's meaning, black spokesmen insisted.

However, even after the Emancipation Proclamation, two more years of war, service by African American troops, and the defeat of the Confederacy, the nation was still unprepared to deal with the question of full citizenship for the newly freed African Americans

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