Completion said there was really no Church Involvement there. Im not trying to depricate the church. Im asserting it played a central role but i dont want to give a tribute of monopoly of leadership to the church. In both reconstructions, the enthusiasm of white northerners started to wane, to decline when the price of black advancement rose. In the 1870s, we talked about the way in which just the need to police the white south became a price that was greater than what many white northerners were willing to pay, and thats one of the reasons the first reconstruction ended. In more recent times, you find that when the inner city riots of the 60s take place, when the School Bussing issue arrived in the 1970s, when whites start to realize that there is a National Problem here and there is a National Price to be paid, the enthusiasm for whites, or at least the acquiescence of whites in the north starts to decline. Now, i want to draw a distinction here, though, between the two reconstructio
Lecture on president Lyndon Johnsons war on poverty. Next melvin ely compares the reconstruction and civil rights eras. Its just over an hour. Here we are at the end of the semester and it strikes me as a Good Opportunity maybe to compare the reconstruction period that we started off talking about in this course with what some have called the second reconstruction, which is the time of the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s. Let me tell you, first, what i mean by the first reconstruction and the second reconstruction. By the first, i mean in not only postcivil war reconstruction, im including also the civil war itself and all that took place during the war up through the end of radical reconstruction. The second reconstruction will be simply enough, the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s. I wont carry my remarks any farther than that, i think. Now, in talking about the two reconstructions, im going to have to use some broad generalizations of a type im not entirely comforta
Talking about in this course with what some have called the second reconstruction, which is the time of the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s. Let me tell you, first, what i mean by the first reconstruction and the second reconstruction. By the first, i mean in not only postcivil war reconstruction, im including also the civil war itself and all that took place during the war up through the end of radical reconstruction. The second reconstruction will be simply enough, the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s. I wont carry my remarks any farther than that, i think. Now, in talking about the two reconstructions, im going to have to use some broad generalizations of a type im not entirely comfortable with, for example ill talk occasionally about the white south or the north or Something Like that and that covers up all kinds of complexities that, unfortunately, i dont have time to get into today. Now, im going to start off by giving you a brief summary narrative of the first r
Here we are at the end of the semester and it strikes me as a Good Opportunity maybe to compare the reconstruction period that we started off talking about in this course with what some have called the second reconstruction, which is the time of the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s. Let me tell you, first, what i mean by the first reconstruction and the second reconstruction. By the first, i mean in not only postcivil war reconstruction, im including also the civil war itself and all that took place during the war up through the end of radical reconstruction. The second reconstruction will be simply enough, the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s. I wont carry my remarks any farther than that, i think. Now, in talking about the two reconstructions, im going to have to use some broad generalizations of a type im not entirely comfortable with, for example ill talk occasionally about the white south or the north or Something Like that and that covers up all kinds of complexit
Semester and it strikes me as a Good Opportunity maybe to compare the reconstruction period that we started off talking about in this course with what some have called the second reconstruction, which is the time of the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s. Let me tell you, first, what i mean by the first reconstruction and the second reconstruction. By the first, i mean in not only postcivil war reconstruction, im including also the civil war itself and all that took place during the war up through the end of radical reconstruction. The second reconstruction will be simply enough, the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s. I wont carry my remarks any farther than that, i think. Now, in talking about the two reconstructions, im going to have to use some broad generalizations of a type im not entirely comfortable with, for example ill talk occasionally about the white south or the north or Something Like that and that covers up all kinds of complexities that, unfortunately, i don