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For a longer piece. It is an extraordinary watershed, historical moment. I think we are living through a third american reconstruction effort to reconstruct democracy so that it is multiracial, multicultural. Our first efforts were after the civil war. 1865 to 1877. We did achieve some racial progress. We had black elected officials. 1500 we had a freedmens bureau. We had the creation of black churches and Public Schools, but we also institutionalized racial segregation rather quickly by the 1880s and 1890s. And we did it through racial violence and public policy. Our second reconstruction is the Civil Rights Movement between 1954 and 1965. When we think about Public School desegregation and the Voting Rights act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There was again racial progress, but that was really quickly closed off when we think about 1968. The assassination of Martin Luther king jr. , the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, the assassination of malcolm x. Now, we have another effort. In
Susan dr. Peniel joseph, you and i planned this interview three months back, but we got sideways with the covid lockdown. As a historian, how are you processing this time this country is going through . Prof. Joseph i have been writing a lot, both opeds in for a longer piece. It is extraordinary watershed moment. I think we are living through a third american reconstruction effort to reconstruct democracy so that it is multiracial, multicultural. Our first efforts were after the civil war. 1865 to 1877. We did achieve some racial progress. We had 15 black elected officials. We had a freedmens bureau. We had the creation of black churches and Public Schools, but we also institutionalized racial segregation rather quickly by the 1880s and 1890s. We did it through racial violence and public policy. Our second reconstruction is the Civil Rights Movement between 1954 and 1965. When we think about Public School desegregation and the Voting Rights act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Bute wa
You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta. It is a busy evening on capitol hill. Over the last several hours, lawmakers have dramatically backed away from the brink of a Big Government shutdown. Were not Out Of The Woods yet. With surprising speed and bipartisanship, the house passed a stopgap Spending Measure that would fund the government for the next 45 days. The white house has signaled the president will sign it. First it has to get through the senate and that vote may have hit a delay. Manu raju is following all of this on capitol hill. I was hoping that it would not be sunset by the time you were able to go home this evening but it seems like thats not the case. You cant count on that on capitol hill. There may be a bit of a wrinkle in the senate in terms of getting to the finish line. What can you tell us . Reporter thats right. This is about the issue of ukraine. This bill that is waiting for a final Senate Approval that got approved in the house to avoid a shutdown does
For a rally. He will join us after the events to take your phone calls. It gets underway tonight at 7 00 eastern here on cspan. , politics, books and american history. Coverage ofe alive president ial candidates at the iowa state fair continues. Chris christie at noon and bobby jindal at 1 00 p. M. Sunday evening at 6 30, scott walker holds a town hall meeting in ashland, new hampshire. Saturday come up with tv is live at the inaugural mississippi book festival beginning and 11 30 a. M. Rights, history and biography and the literary lives of harper lee and eudora wealthy. Shares her critical thoughts on the obama administrations relationship with millennials. Saturday afternoon at 5 00, andrew on the preservation of new yorks cultural, political and architectural landmarks in the history of the commission created to protect them. Railamerica, three films on the program administered by the Johnson Administration to help improve relations between the police and the community after the Ma