Employers from their employees when they went to the polls. They were not passed in all states. Secret ball let polls lagged. So we have this kind of interesting phenomenon with the klan of the 20s. Even as this membership grows, klan violence declines. In fact, racial violence overall declines during the 1920s after a kind of sharp spike in lynchings post world war i. Certainly compared to whats effectively the paramilitary klan of reconstruction or the terrorism of the klan in the civil rights era, historians have written about the klan of the 1920s as less physically environment, though of course still driven by the same fundamentally violent ideology. Thats not the whole picture though. To correct that misunderstanding, what we need to do is look at the klans political involvement. I think its particularly interesting to look at this from the federal level. Now if we focus on electoral success, its pretty easy to dismiss the influence of the ku klux klan on the politics of the 1920
American history from john hopkins and prisoners of war and politics of vengeance in the American Revolution which will be released this fall by the university of Pennsylvania Press. Articles in the journal and the new england quarterly and working on a project that is titled patrick henrys war the struggle for empire in the revolutionary west. Kellie Carter Jackson is from wellesley college. Out from university of Pennsylvania Press provides the first historical analysis exclusively focused on the tactical uses of violence among black activists. She is coeditor of race, politics and memory and featured in the History Channel documentary roots a history revealed which was nominated for an image award in 2016. Gideon cohnpostar the causes and consequences of economic voter intimidation in the late 17th century and the institute of American History and the andrew w. Melon foundation and the social Science Research council. And finally Felix Harcourt is from Austin College and his researc
Reopening process going. Look, it does feel that there is a very self confident sense by governors that its time. I think that the president is so oriented towards its time, and the president is soed ed ed eet in having a vaccine by years end, that theres an element of two different worlds here. Theres the real world influenced by the president saying open it up, people want to do it, and the stock world influenced by Warren Buffett who said i sold the airlines because that industry has fundamentally changed. Its a big gulf. Really the largest ive seen amazing. David . Sorry, carl weve been talking about that for weeks. The many phone calls that you or i will have with Business Leaders who are focused on maintaining their liquidity, focused on just being around to fight another day come the end of the year. The many ceos who join us on air who constantly talk about their businesses not coming back to the levels they were prior to the virus for maybe two or three years. Now they may be
If you live in eastern or central time zones, 202 7488000 is the number to call. Dish in thein any mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001. The recent column appeared in yesterdays wall street journal. The era of Big Government is back is the title. To show you some of what they wrote. Conversations with a broad crosssection of political figures suggest there is little reason to expect a return of the status quo on federal spending, or the prevailing attitude toward the proper role of government. The era of Ronald Reagan is over a democratmanuel, who served as the mayor of chicago and president obamas first chief of staff. An echo came from the other. Ide, from Stephen Bannon it is not relevant. That is some of the thoughts from yesterday from gerald cy vance john mccormick. This when itte comes to mr. Trump. Saying, long before when this crisis struck, trump had been moving the party away from its embrace of traditional conservative precepts. The Trump Administration declared that
A comeback. And taiwan accuses the World Health Organization of not sharing coronavirus information due to chinese pressure. Hello welcome to the program the United States has suffered the worlds worst single day of the corona virus pandemic with close to 1200 deaths on thursday the total number of fatalities has surpassed 6000 the number of reported infections worldwide is now more than a 1000000 wartime powers are being used in the us to get urgently needed equipment to hospitals President Trump has invoked the defense production act ordering private companies to make masks ventilators and other medical equipment our White House Correspondent Kimberly Houk at has more on the range of new measures announced by President Trump. As the number of corner virus cases in the United States continues to rise so does historic unemployment as a result the u. S. President announcing 350000000000 in Small Business loans to help Small Businesses retain employees who are staying at home right now a