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Teddy Roosevelt: “Can our opponents deny that here at home the principles of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments have been in effect…”

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Can our opponents deny that here at home the principles of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments have been in effect nullified?
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt challenges opponents to acknowledge the nullification of civil rights amendments at home.

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