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the terror and violence of the Klan and its many imitators,
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in Reconstruction,
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and then locked arms eventually, in the later nineteenth century
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and into the twentieth century,
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with reconciliationists of all kinds in our culture,
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and delivered the country a racially segregated memory,
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a racially segregated story of this experience,
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at least by 1900, and really even before.
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A third kind of memory, always competing with these,
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we might call an emancipationist memory,
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embodied in African-Americans, complex--
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and they had no single memory of slavery, the war,