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In June 1964, hundreds of mostly white students from northern colleges gathered in Mississippi, responding to the call of human rights groups to hold Freedom Summer. Activists planned to eliminate the laws of Jim Crow and the infamous racist customs of this state, trying to register tens of thousands of black residents of Mississippi as voters. This movement prompted Congress to sign the landmark Voting Rights Act next year.
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The holiday has origins in the Roman festival of Lupercalia, held in mid-February. The festival, which celebrated the coming of spring, included fertility rites and the pairing off of women with men by lottery. At the end of the 5th century, Pope Gelasius I replaced Lupercalia with St. Valentine's Day.
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The states retained the most governmental power under the article of confederation.
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Business reform became an important issue during Theodore Roosevelt's term.
