1 Look at Source B. What does it tell you about the membership of the NAACP?
It was a joyous day for black Americans on 1 January 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in the rebellious Confederate states. A ban on slavery was made official with the passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865. However, African Americans were still far from equal with their white counterparts. In the years following the American Civil War, many former Confederate states in the South passed Jim Crow Laws, legalising the segregation of black and white Americans and putting up barriers designed to prevent blacks from voting.
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