Completion said there was really no Church Involvement there. Im not trying to depricate the church. Im asserting it played a central role but i dont want to give a tribute of monopoly of leadership to the church. In both reconstructions, the enthusiasm of white northerners started to wane, to decline when the price of black advancement rose. In the 1870s, we talked about the way in which just the need to police the white south became a price that was greater than what many white northerners were willing to pay, and thats one of the reasons the first reconstruction ended. In more recent times, you find that when the inner city riots of the 60s take place, when the School Bussing issue arrived in the 1970s, when whites start to realize that there is a National Problem here and there is a National Price to be paid, the enthusiasm for whites, or at least the acquiescence of whites in the north starts to decline. Now, i want to draw a distinction here, though, between the two reconstructio