Why do you think African-Americans thought the right to vote was so important?

Because they wanted equality and they wanted a say in the election

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i receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility. it is an award that speaks to our highest aspirations — that for all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.

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this is a false claim the emancipation proclamtion freed all slaves in the rebillion states