Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

Lyndon B. Johnson
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Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact. The slogan "Freedom Now!" was one of the most famous rallying cries of the Civil War. Today, however, it is used as a catch-all phrase to demand that Americans are owed certain rights. The truth is that the Civil War did not end slavery in America, nor did it end racism or segregation. It took another century for the race problem to be resolved in America, and it will take another century before all people are truly equal.

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