The two books were the first works by an African American to be published by a major publishing house. ... He was a strong voice against the disfranchisement of African Americans, the showing of racist movies such as "The Birth of The Nation" and the publication of books denigrating African Americans. In 1928 Chesnutt, the teacher, the lawyer, the businessman, and the writer, was awarded the NAACP Spingarn award for contribution to creative literature and Civil Rights. ... Chesnutt notes that "Douglass was not the ideal slave garnered by the meek and lowly spirit of Uncle Tom" and h...

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Dorothea instead began to teach and wrote many books. ... Through reviewing scholarly literature related to Dix, as well as impressions of her as recorded by several female diarists during the Civil War, one might conclude that she was either a truly strict, abrasive person, or that she was merely pushing as hard as she thought necessary to enlarge the scope of "acceptable" duties to be handled by nurses during the War and in the future. ... In 1865, she conceived the project of locating missing soldiers and obtained a note of endorsement from President Lincoln. ...

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Buchanan said that the Dred Scott decision was proof that the South had no reason for secession, and that the Union "... was intended to be perpetual," but that, "The power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union," was not among the "... enumerated powers granted to Congress." the National Banking Act and the authorization of United States Notes by the Legal Tender Act of 1862. ...

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Buchanan said that the Dred Scott decision was proof that the South had no reason for secession, and that the Union "... was intended to be perpetual," but that, "The power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union," was not among the "... enumerated powers granted to Congress." the National Banking Act and the authorization of United States Notes by the Legal Tender Act of 1862. ...

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