Reconstruction Histories

1901

• geogia entitled to representation in congress
  • supposed marker of the end of recontstruction
• argues that even while the north won the war, institutations that would replace slavery were already being instantiated
  • respectable white men, who didnt like the kkk, also didnt like the idea of dealing with the kkk with a black militia
  • gov was 'paralyzed' under its own authority
  • apearance of a armed body of black men didnt sit well with body of armed whites

1935 > *I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience….*

damn.

• lots of propoganda to discredit the humanity of black people
• argues that the facts of american hist have been falsified because people were ashamed
• classic narrative at the time was
  • that the abolitionists ruined any chance at a peiceful resolution
  • black people profited w/o effort
• ofc, not true.
• south was painted as a martyr to inescapable fate
• says that the entire field was twisted

1980 - argues that - the civil war was not about ending slavery - instead, it was about retaining enormous national territyor and resources - the other stuff was just to rally people behind?

• says that kkk was organized by southern white oligarchy
  • only a "matter of time" before "blacks would be reduced one again to conditions not far from slavery"
• 14th ammendment gets changed to only apply to states not individuals
• people stopped caring as much about defening black citizens
  • 1870s

1997

• republican extremists arguing similar things to the secessionisnts
  • that balances gov was impossible
• even though black people were the majority of voters and held all the postions of power, the real power was in the hands of the northern 'carpetbaggers'
• a society based on racial hatred emerged

2021

• BBBB, build back better bill
• "the professors are the enemy" -nixon
  • says that educators are destroying america by not teaching critical race theory??
• intresting, argues that attacking profressors are kindling for authoritatian attacks
  • happened in cambodia, itally, and soviet union
• using cultural attacks to consolidate power
• 'souther whites' sayed they were discrimination based on preperty ownership or education
• says that modern day people are trying to do the same thing and restrict the vote
  • and we can't let that happen!