Led by a coalition of blacks and whites with funding from congressional radicals, the Union League was a secret society whose purpose was to bring freedmen into the political arena after the Civil War. Angry and resentful of the lingering vestiges of the plantation system, freedmen responded to the League's appeals with alacrity, and hundreds of thousands joined local chapters, speaking and acting collectively to undermine the residual trappings of...
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African-American Studies History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Specific Demographics