The Jefferson Davis's Citizenship Restoration Story

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A Promise Fulfilled: President Carter Signs Jefferson Davis’s Citizenship Bill

On October 17, 1978, the moment finally came.

It didn’t happen with television cameras flashing or with crowds gathered around. It happened quietly, in the White House, while the President of the United States was balancing peace in the Middle East with a personal request from a great-great-grandson of Jefferson Davis.

That great great grandson was me.

And I’ll never forget what it felt like w...

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