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House Apologizes for Slavery, Jim Crow

One hundred and forty years after any slave was legally held anywhere in the United States, the House of Representatives voted yesterday on a resolution apologizing to African-Americans for slavery and Jim Crow laws that discriminated against blacks mostly in the South. The measure was sponsored by Tennessee Representative Steve Cohen, a Democrat, and cited the, "fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow." Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) said that he would consider introducing a similar resolution in the Senate. Passage of the bill marks the second time this year ...

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