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'You and me, we sweat and strain': blacks in America and the musical Show Boat : Comments
By Peter West, published 7/1/2016A Civil Rights Act gave citizenship to black people in 1866. But success for the North and the subjugation of the South began a long period of difficult times for people of colour.
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In the twentieth century the challengers to the USA for superpower status were Nazi Germany, imperial Japan and the Soviet Union. As scary and bad as the US is, can you imagine Nazi Germany, imperial Japan or the Soviet Union being better than the US?