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do you listen and the ashes says it's the first thing that we're seeing in the news that the story of the three shadows the first thing they see is the story of a new move marks one could share which normally is the same kinds of three years of this transition well which is it traditional for the reports of more pressing matters into the chat is that these people will probably only is the us ms savitz says assassins propaganda or reconstruction
that must've been more why their worry why now we are oppressing them more porous so you know in the end a lot of the nation's legal business goes on in the morning or his reputation he's the press thank you ari he's shah because he has induced the wives or daughters and so
republican newspapers in libya even if it is only what they deserve what happened to that issue his own hands or the steelers are eight and one why does look good the one wife presidential candidate of the united states is from illinois is often been accused of corruption loesser yeah that it ran when i came across the state line to shoot they were
bishop it was through the use of land i don't think we can but after he is gone you
just see the law is the law why now he's been the plan the best way to do that is to
have for instance a raucous they couldn't stop me you won't need lawyers that through the span of a worm fly he has enormous it's betraying you just can't openly that is more rude than they could be you steve today he's been worse than to resign their losses and then only were under a process at least according to st mark work for you so
you in the irish get in which there are very few of the kind of creoles of color that you have been more ups is the political environment in which i think both he and his lieutenants are reluctant to how flattened take too much responsibility i mean i there was a unit and he wasn't cool or not the ship will do this because i'm thinking they possibly can to have a job here and it wasn't recognized that law says europe is going to be a very lucky that is bad about
having any law is the court is a chance to share their and execute last year ago jobs i was in an environment which the widows of necessity he has to maintain control himself when he was in the most important positions but for a performance when they're now but if the republicans for a regular parish
it's the only way where the returns are lasting clearly the republicans here or rather her work as the republicans will in northwest louisiana and this chorus chorus west there are a lot it's crucial is a disputed area in louisiana corey poirier we were then the blacks in the city that really with a lot more and the black population losses the precision of this coalition
because it's poor insanely that were and you can control republican control in louisiana a state law intro the city uses that the mississippi were still he becomes the target is he comes to save you tons of reconstruction unless rival boston realtor eric oh
yeah this was never never used that they can't put across the terminus that's as in racial divide this is a time for his comments about you you also says it made life when he's writing his autobiography of his because he's a newly too civilized nations of your great britain and the united states as you say where is it
late in life it's b yes the day that the day recess when he approaches the eu and he approached the pair why not nice
these warm walls the exercise room is an access we're very ones that rule the time west side's wrong just a workman come out like this these days of reconstruction teams
are using heat <unk> reduce other justices the rooms have been used for reconstruction it is the story where i think it's just bluster line and there was no work for failing to means of reconstruction with the white hose these black man with a poll of segregation he has been forced out after reconstruction because in your own life
but the thing with the obviously we really we want to be progressive this epoch of prizes that the countries on this bustling problem is rising but there's a dark side of american history to reconstruct instructions part of that dark side whilst that takes place in reconstruction development association the repair room countries with latin american laws we don't want to admit that things like incentives like hou hsiao colfax in mississippi actually occur when you do that for all with reconstruction listen more
oh yeah it was in the nineteen sixties the timing which finally why people are actually really happened this is the we need to pass doesn't it and so this is
the public accommodations apply says if you will the past is there a curse for reconstruction but it is a board and it doesn't really come to fruition until the second reconstruction just a second he's being the peace
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American Experience
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Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
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Interview with Ted Tunnell, Historian, Virginia Commonwealth University, part 5 of 5
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In the tumultuous years after the Civil War (1863-77), America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and how to bring former slaves into the life of the country. Tunnell discusses the life of Marshall Twitchell, propaganda about Coushatta, Twitchell's return to Vermont, Twitchell's life as a metaphore for failed dreams of reconstruction,.
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History
Race and Ethnicity
Politics and Government
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American history, African Americans, civil rights, racism, Reconstruction, Confederacy, voting rights, slavery, emancipation
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Chicago: “American Experience; Reconstruction: The Second Civil War; Interview with Ted Tunnell, Historian, Virginia Commonwealth University, part 5 of 5 ,” WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 28, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-959c53fz7m.
MLA: “American Experience; Reconstruction: The Second Civil War; Interview with Ted Tunnell, Historian, Virginia Commonwealth University, part 5 of 5 .” WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 28, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-959c53fz7m>.
APA: American Experience; Reconstruction: The Second Civil War; Interview with Ted Tunnell, Historian, Virginia Commonwealth University, part 5 of 5 . Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-959c53fz7m