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Over the decades of the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s, Harper's Weekly consistently
condemned the discrimination and violence manifested in the United States
against black Americans, American Indians, and Chinese-Americans. At the same
time, the newspaper advocated the basic civil rights of those groups, and their
incorporation into American political, social, and economic life. Catholic
Irish-Americans (see "Nativism" in Issues), however, were
treated very differently by the editors, reporters, and artists of Harper's Weekly. There were two basic reasons for this distinction: religion and
politics. |
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