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The newspapers found it difficult to realize that free speech and a free press were at last established.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “The newspapers found it difficult to realize that free speech and a free press were at last established.”
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Reid reflects on the establishment of free speech and press in the post-war South.
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