CSPAN3 Freedmen During Reconstruction February 26, 2017
I think you all know that and get it because what undermines the whole progressive effort to reconstruction is the lack of Voting Rights for those freed men and women. We will expand this beyond voting. We just could not get there is a nation with the 13th amendment, with the Civil Rights Act of 1866. It did not give Voting Rights to the africanamericans. And neither did the 14th amendment with its equal protection and due process. It took the 15th amendment. And of course that is not work either because of every effort by some to deny africanamericans this great franchise of voting. Why do yo...