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...equal." Before the Civil War, teaching a slave to read was a crime punishable by imprisonment in some Southern states. But after the war, there was a crusade to raise the freed slave's status. It was led by two white men: Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania and Charles Sumner of Massachusetts...
Stevens, a stony-faced, crippled son of a Vermont village shoemaker, was the crude but effective pleader for the Negro in the U.S. House of Representatives. Sumner, a master orator who succeeded Daniel Webster in the U.S. Senate, carried the Negro's banner there. They were the spiritual leaders of the "Radical Republicans," whose pro-Negro stand was far beyond that of Abraham Lincoln. In 1866, when President Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill to expand the Freedmen's Bureau (an agency to aid and educate former slaves), Stevens rose in the House and called the North Carolina-born...
Fighting for their cause with such vehemence, Sumner and Stevens pushed the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, passed in 1866, providing that "no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens." They rammed through the reconstruction acts of 1867, which established military governors over ten Southern states and set the terms on which the states would be readmitted to the Union. Among their terms: suffrage for Negroes and ratification of the 14th Amendment...
Haring's award is one made annually by the Academy of American Franciscan History in memory of Fr. Junipero Serra, a missionary to southern California. Past recipients of the award are Sumner Wells, ex-United States Under-Secretary of State, and Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean poet...
...Sumner H. Slichter, professor of Economics, criticized the economic policies of the present Republican administration in a speech last night before 30 economics majors in the Eliot House Junior-Common Room...