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history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook. next on american history television, pulitzer prize-winning author eic foner on the challenges of establishing civil rights for friedman in the reconstruction period and beyond. eric foner. with that, i would like to introduce eric foner. eric when iuntered was a college student thinking about becoming an historian and had visions of riding a good book. then i read freemen, free soil, , maybe ir and thought ought to stop now. i will not be able to write a book that good. whatis is his first book, is he going to write? i ran away from antebellum history. you can t compete with people like him. i have come back to antebellum history and slavery and since then, i have relied on many of eric s more than 20 books. i would review the list, but we do not have that much time. i do want to say, and this is the fun of introducing a speaker, looking at his selected publications, ....
away from antebellum history and became a contemporary historian. because you can t compete with people like him. but eventually, i came back to antebellum history and slavery and since then, i have relied on many of eric s more than 20 books. i would read you the list, but we do not have that much time. i do want to say, though, and this is always the fun of introducing a speaker, looking at his selected publications, i notice he has written a book called dance for the city: 50 years of the new york city ballet, and i can think of no better preparation for giving a talk today, at this moment, on reconstruction and the radical republicans who helped reconstruct the nation than somebody who knows how to move quickly on his feet. [laughter] and with that, i would like to introduce my good friend, somebody who i admire enormously, the winner of the lincoln prize, the pulitzer prize, and i think every other prize that is available, eric foner. [applause] thank you, paul f ....
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page and searching the video library. we have more now from the lincoln annual symposium. and the overall successes and failures of reconstruction. they discussed educational opportunities, land redistribution, and voting rights as well as the politics behind these reconstruction measures. this is about 15 minutes. 15 mi. the title of this panel may be a little bit deceiving. it s if i can read it here. voting rights for black freedmen, what went right and what went wrong. so it seems to be couched in the erms t terms of voting rights and it is about reconstruction. i think you all know that and get it, because what undermines the whole progressive effort for reconstruction is the lack of voting rights for those freed men and women. so we re going to expand this beyond voting, but we just couldn t get there as a nation with the 13th amendment, final freedom, with the civil rights act of 1866. it didn t give voting rights to the african-americans, and neither did t ....
so it seems to be couched in the erms t terms of voting rights and it is about reconstruction. i think you all know that and get it, because what undermines the whole progressive effort for reconstruction is the lack of voting rights for those freed men and women. so we re going to expand this beyond voting, but we just couldn t get there as a nation with the 13th amendment, final freedom, with the civil rights act of 1866. it didn t give voting rights to the african-americans, and neither did the 14th amendment with its equal protection and due process. it took the 15th amendment, and of course that didn t work either because of every effort by some to deny african-americans this great franchise of voting. why do you think people come to this country? one of the things is the ability to choose their own representatives. so we have a great panel. i don t say that every time that we have a panel, but we have we have a great one today. joan wah, who is vice chair of aca ....