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Food for Thought Reading Assignments

Week 14 (April 28-May 4)

Tuesday, April 30

John Childers' Testimony before the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States (1871)
Memorial from the State Convention of Alabama Negroes (1874) )
Ordeal by Fire, pp. 583-615

Thursday, May 2

Henry Grady, "The New South" Speech (December 22, 1886)
Frederick Douglass, "Address to the Louisville Convention" (1883)
Ordeal by Fire, pp. 617-659

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