Dickerson was a prominent civil rights attorney who graduated from the Law School in 1920. His painting joins a collection of portraits adorning the main hall of the law school.
what came after, after the union s victory, which is the successful effort by those same confederate forces to win back white supremacy in the south and to win back the story of their own know built. and those victories are marked with statues to the confederacy like this one of robert e. lee erected in the former capital of the confederacy in richmond, virginia, in 1890, 25 years after lee s surrender at appomattox. after the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments which made slavery unlawful and unconstitutional and gave men of any color the right to vote and full citizenship. and after the union victory, there was a hope born for people like frederick douglas and thaddeus stevens and harriet tubman of a true multi-racial democracy enshrined in those civil war amendments with people
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