Senate Adopts Slavery Apology Resolution
Senate Adopts Slavery Apology Resolution
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'Greg Vadala and Edward Epstein, Congressional Quarterly: "The Senate adopted a resolution Thursday offering a formal apology for slavery and the era of 'separate but equal' Jim Crow laws that followed. After the clerk finished reading the resolution (S Con Res 26) in full, Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin, the measure's sponsor, noted that Congress has never before issued a formal apology for slavery."
http://www.truthout.org/061809S
'Greg Vadala and Edward Epstein, Congressional Quarterly: "The Senate adopted a resolution Thursday offering a formal apology for slavery and the era of 'separate but equal' Jim Crow laws that followed. After the clerk finished reading the resolution (S Con Res 26) in full, Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin, the measure's sponsor, noted that Congress has never before issued a formal apology for slavery."
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