Theres places in the south where black local political involvement actually rises after 1877. What democrats are trying to do is carry those states electoral college. They dont care if theres a black assemblyman in this one district in louisiana. So for me, reconstruction, a, doesnt fail, its killed. Where it does stop, its murdered. And it doesnt stop every place. So for blacks in my new york, it is in fact a story of success. Does that mean all of americas racial problems are solved . Not a bit. Not anywhere. But those Voting Rights are not going to go away. Those integrated schools are not going to go away. The question i have for you is, i understand where youre coming from, these gentlemen had to have some supporters, i assume there were some whites. I got garrison and some of the others but you also indicated some folks here that a lot of us had not heard of so the corollary is are there some whites that were also part of this that we havent heard of that were working with them .
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He was also fluent in english and this was highly unusual in the mid1800s for any plains indian to be fluent in english or in any other language other than the language which that indians spoke. Each tribe had its own language but the common language on the plains with sign language. Everybody communicated with signs. Nobody had to learn anybody elses language and here was this man to his fluent in english. I am a writer. I set out to answer the question that i wanted answered and that was how did he become fluent in english . I thought it would write and magazine argue Magazine Article on him. I ended up writing a biography on him. A white traitor married his sister and started living in the white village and took lefthand he was probably 10 or 11 or Something Like that, took him under his wing and taught him english. He was fluent in english. When a gold rush occurred in 1858 in colorado and you had fords imported people coming across the plains justice during indian land, and runnin