Eric Foner · The Little Man's Big Friends: Freedom's Dominion · LRB 1 June 2023
Many white Southerners adopted their own equation of the era of the civil rights movement with Reconstruction, warning...
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Many white Southerners adopted their own equation of the era of the civil rights movement with Reconstruction, warning...
The ousting of two Black Democrats from the Tennessee House of Representatives makes clear that the US urgently needs to salvage and rebuild a true multiracial democracy.
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in">"I started thinking that it’s actually very important—and very harmful—that we locate our fundamental values in the Founding and the America of 1776 rather than Reconstruction and the America of 1868."</p>
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in">"I started thinking that it’s actually very important—and very harmful—that we locate our fundamental values in the Founding and the America of 1776 rather than Reconstruction and the America of 1868."</p>
In The Third Reconstruction, historian Peniel Joseph examines how how the broken promises of racial equality in the past might be fulfilled in the future.