American Experience; Reconstruction: The Second Civil War; Second Interview with Edward L. Ayers, Historian, University of Virginia, part 1 of 3
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cc and the republican party was the usual they can to protect the rights of what they had been trampled on throughout the entire history that gas dominate residences or an office that's in the nation and it's time that they have their fair share so many reconstruction what they're trying to do over the course of the republican's vision cells which he said that because of the car and it's the war plans against slavery the republicans aren't aren't designed to protect the rights of
the party over the course of the war and as those that the party has been over the course of the war and works to all americans this is a new role for them they are jobs bill a national asset in war in this war and we are in construction and wanders and white settlers so there's all these different forms patients
don't know that they know all last week us today well there is that not the places that you know republicans known as the foreign law civil rights you know
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today this boy was for fourteen years the shah to see that white settlers seem to be denying that were my school the you know slavery and getting america african latin sea engines laugh and to show
that as well we're going on this financial situation somewhere between six and why we're so the land were were assurances they won i'm sorry no he's exaggerating their whole
business is curiously that was sassy won't johnsen's words of support for him taking an entire presidency is in just a growing areas throughout the only that people have a national army this white voters supporting the rights and justice is trying to create an aura of cheese
this group of democrats sent back to the democrats what we know is is that he lost the job is listening once saw as those businesses insults and prosecutions no one saw passed it was important to the creation or so lots of thousands saw
businesses which is a national one that's beginning is sixty six and said james its own uses so this is an issue all include loses the war
white southerners see why congress hasn't issued any use that was really what sense is this so he came in the house and while it's a lot more risky as this is the outcome in this year's election there are doesn't want to lose those in the republicans
but ngos and an artist's last name johnson senior class so the justices to hear the necessarily the citizens of the new disney store owners republicans and justin and see in the white house and then seized on he's lost well one officials and just
seems to slow work as well as a seasoned mortgages through wyoming's and more than just want an end to the news i just i'm sorry he
says oh yes why is that this is his home state there
just is a little less is actually it's worse than woman that's why he says this so the final analysis he
says this is the factors this possible this is you know you listen to a little many growers sell slaves are now their citizens asking about its far larger changing all american history this new rules that were so they're so those places it's awesome and asked the former slaves and
as the girl oh do you think in the message of the day so close apollo forte this year's race so you
levin is the oldest lion was this was their seasons black men black women with the cast and less severe charge and white settlers because these poor slaves voting no no no and then you know and work in the states and wesson this is just one example watson says the families
and that those world monopoly position on the war seems distant past that at sixty five white southerners and what lessons following that usually does and i think there's a reason that you have a lot the state uses sure what they should do at the same time so the very first six years in reconstruction
seattle's george and the creation of a conventional walking through the house will follow ms bass so whether you're an ant is really believes that the current he says something's happening is sir ian at you and say hip hop production and anyway she and mark says that agency thousands and sixty six at all no inflation is low that have people all ages
showed this is an enormous sea or insurers or sixties that song today's violence is he says is that the stones are so that really happens now wrote frequent protests and longtime news is he is the reason that happens or less is this at all
today it's business insurance is there is is its insurers also with painkillers it's you know that baby loans and so in addition to use the machinery of the economy this is the site it is and watch
out a large car and reconstructing the south's economy at princeton who says the regime says all sixty years or so he gets in there so the us is in six seats and so that's the price of the conversation until he says the lakes this decline says while so
it has been ms ball well and so this is why when he signs on with this as
they were taking off their loans and serve the year and he sees this land was a movie has been made that and yes they're certain all instances thousands at all costs so this is one
and say wow the house is white the last nation it means that they are that they need for the use of their seats so it's
so basic everything looks to them as an insult and says he wants to raise social service a service so that mrs higgins that was strapped to cooperate with the jewels of the lessons that we can give the seas become clear this was going to make clear that we are in control is it's abbott's psychological legal and economic turmoil dc law and
it faults the past forty years and now say this is a message of pass the wall says when katie's americans across this sentence this week taking advantage of the situation to see celeste and seizes guns in the war on the worlds side hardware is that issue is their best
man and its be victims that also is not one character or orchestrate so far worse that can be known nationally process kkk that they are weinstein's these different groups what's the political situation with great concern because it seems that republicans are starting ever stronger alliances like this and at the base this plant began in secrecy first efforts were losing republican and because they see the republicans just
incremental gains in the cost it's just that they think that it means that they used to destroy republicans are just because you know because you know what means or do they think that's their rivals made an impression this was a useful what our reporter asked his constituents so the ku klux klan is still so white house says that they are getting worse christiansen says the desire
to play and here's why and i think that that's how human vigilante what's planned and justin robinson they're selfish climates that they weren't as they see why christian civilization and house an american audience well it
so efficiently so that people deserve to know our patients are shivering once cautioned this is genius is it yes yes the
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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. Ayers talks about instability after the assassination of Lincoln, the black codes, Andrew Johnson and the Fourteenth Amendment, the cotton economy and declining prices, emergence of the Ku Klux Klan.
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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; Second Interview with Edward L. Ayers, Historian, University of Virginia, part 1 of 3 ,” WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 21, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-mg7fq9r75c.
- MLA: “American Experience; Reconstruction: The Second Civil War; Second Interview with Edward L. Ayers, Historian, University of Virginia, part 1 of 3 .” WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 21, 2026. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-mg7fq9r75c>.
- APA: American Experience; Reconstruction: The Second Civil War; Second Interview with Edward L. Ayers, Historian, University of Virginia, part 1 of 3 . 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-mg7fq9r75c