Post by Odysseus on Dec 30, 2020 18:34:09 GMT
"Perhaps the most remarkable tribute to Grant came in a letter that September (1872) from the leaders of the Convention of Colored Citizens of New England. It began: 'Allow us to offer you a tribute of grateful hearts.' It praised his wartime service for helping to free 'four millions of our race'; for making the Emancipation Proclamation a reality; for suppressing 'the midnight murderous bands' (KKK) who had perpetrated atrocities against southern blacks; and 'for appointing men of our color Ministers Plenipotentiary, thus establishing the fact of your practical recognition of the equality of all men before the law'". (page 745)