Following the collapse of Reconstruction, African Americans created a broad-based independent political movement in the South: Black Populism.
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“If a child were kept in a place where he never saw any other but black and white till he were a man, he would have no more ideas of scarlet or green, than he that from his childhood never tasted an oyster, or a pineapple, has of those particular relishes.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)