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However we have compromised these ideals for the sake of prosperity or greed on numerous occasions starting with the threefifths compromise that allowed plantation owners to continue to profit and politically use slavery

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Then again we compromised with the same forces to finally end the bloody conflict of our civil war in the late 1800s and again with the same forces after the voting rights act of 1865

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The book is very engaging and presents of a hopeful future if we are willing to work for it

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Barber describes not just the story of faithbased organizing in nc uniting all the issues in a fusion coalition but shares the largely untold story of past fusion movements in our history

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I had not known of the extent and depth of black and white working together in the south after the civil war

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Nor of the devastating effect of backlash from the southern power structure

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This is not a book about race it is not a book about poverty it is not a book about any political party

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Well written and thought provoking it is a wake up call for all of us