Transcripts For CSPAN2 Capitol Hill Hearings 20130821

In 1895, all of those rights and privileges had been given, were all taken away in 1895. And if you look at what was taking place between 1866, i guess basically 1876 because it was the 1876 president ial election that created the opportunity, the atmosphere that led to the ending of reconstruction, and eventually led to the creation of jim crowism, and what i often call apartheid in the southern part of the United States of america. So if you look at was going on from 1876 to 1895, in that 20 year period we saw the beginning of the end of full