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Why did the civil rights movement of 1865-1876 collapse? We got the 14th Amendment out of it but it was ignored...what went wrong?

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Some time between 1968 and 1978, can anyone confirm that US labor unions (through the AFL-CIO) went on strike against the nation of Hungary? Yes, I'm serious...

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I suspect that racism in the US was promoted by corporate/big-media interests at various times between the Civil War and WW2 to split labor movements along racial lines. Is there any evidence for this?

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How did Gandhi's non violent civil disobedience tactic jump to the US? Was Howard Thurman the link between Gandhi and MLKjr?

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Why did the civil rights movement of 1865-1876 collapse? We got the 14th Amendment out of it but it was ignored...what went wrong?	41
Some time between 1968 and 1978, can anyone confirm that US labor unions (through the AFL-CIO) went on strike against the nation of Hungary? Yes, I'm serious...	15
I suspect that racism in the US was promoted by corporate/big-media interests at various times between the Civil War and WW2 to split labor movements along racial lines. Is there any evidence for this?	3
How did Gandhi's non violent civil disobedience tactic jump to the US? Was Howard Thurman the link between Gandhi and MLKjr?	3