American Experience; Reconstruction: The Second Civil War; Interview with Eric Foner, Historian, Columbia University, part 5 of 5

you do in nineteen seventy three the united states and syria says it has the most severe economic depression in its history up to that point the depression less committed settlers real incentive line and he is the same as the economic effects and it also transformed politics the president of the human rights issues waiters use it this year and our soldiers the

most anything for the democrats and here's this means that possible in north and the south of civil rights of former slaves administration of president reagan's weekend until this house reinvigorated opposition in the south the reconstruction and forty in a while a direction with new ritual of the plan of the new pants massive political remains southern states forces why is that

when we disrupt it just slowly as it is sixty and if you look at letters is seen by congress will fly around las vegas is sixty seven sixty eight it really is and it is what it is so that was that and down and really was very difficult to get to work at the south and so stay

with me in a number of states republican doghouse quietly tennessee virginia places like that but in a deep recession and south carolina georgia georgian villages and one cell city louisiana center where you have a very large population the restructuring he still retains its original how nice mississippi state

why is this this is nasty it's not like talking to you russia they mobilized there is the plan by today to try to prevent republicans from mobilizing organizing a breakup republican these polls sultan yes

you are president grant to send troops to protect voting rights of the lessons of the city and it was a great vengeance is you know the famous letters interviews with tom lapointe humble outbreaks the entire album will is from the south in the races it was a lawyer and raises look ohio said wow this is still business and that he is actionable is a city over the course of the final stretch it's essentially does a sauna is the

water commission the destruction and supporters the collapsed the wrong balances low so the remaining hostages well the eu is increasingly the state why is this so the policy and we tried to put it last

your words the civil rights bill this is alaska it outlaws racial discrimination in public accommodations hotels transportation opera houses like that pushes the idea of all about this force him to go there

relations pieces accessible ways the oven fireplaces chaucer's those investors that are pretty abysmal the diocese the war in eighties the world and every president hazel grouses swan was set the early eighties and fall of the republican majority in congress meets and partly as a tribute to song they're falling because this is the last time you do it the us the civil rights activities and five black congressman white house values play important roles they really insisting on the importance of civil rights as you know these viruses like constituents and how they are going to see just how they themselves are stigmatize didn't come to washington as a member of

congress they sometimes have the sense that the court's decision came in the eu so it's really you know as the civil rights president well in the language of the nineteenth century there are various reasons we want this sort of naturally while will intrigue will focus solely on which is the quality affordable and then there's this other realms they are more socially well now scientists is right and so he wasn't on reconstruction interracial sexual relations are of course no one

wants to admit they're using social personal intimate relationships so everybody also means access to public facilities and after the civil rights law tribalism has produced tremendous reaction now make the races this is a civil rights lawyer because the fourteenth amendment civil rights

cases and that will of congress has the power of the fourteen men to help find actions and at some times ms bee although most of the reconstruction is it took another session to try to implement some of what was this is more powerful than venice civil rights laws and civil rights in the nineteen sixties the night at the age eighty five civil rights law banning discrimination is very similar to the nineteen sixty four law the supreme court in the nineteen sixties when it

upheld the civil rights bill in nineteen sixty four in the fourteenth amendment before the levees and that's still the interpreter well bob tripe discrimination but the power is the commerce clause commerce here this is thomas and so in a way you know applause boos well

civil rights violations that was according to remain in the past and he says sleeping giants eagles but they essentially for the new weight one of the lessons of this history is that simply having rights and was not sufficient for more violent more and one more and so now freedom is a constant struggle was not just cheating something more than that well do you

he says because he says it is but even that doesnt settle the question goes democrats threaten the law the house of representatives recognition cases and so the city's business leaders he was the uncertainty southerners from the state of louisiana and south carolina and in this final season at the volatile issue in the bar at seven seven because i'm a jesus of the treaty ending and what happens is the son has agreed to not obstruct the eurasian case to recognize faces the president visiting six

haitian police and any further than this he says no more italy's politics you move and around the statehouse in south carolina museum of your current republican planets of those officers was that as they purchase on those days so various reasons so that's promising the stairs the passengers hayes says so some of these warnings

the significance is really this is a kind of national recognition national stated that as a national house and reconstruction as a period in which the federal government is suing the responsibility for the finding and protecting the rights of african american citizens that you sell that as he wiped away and as usual but it uses not only a further federal interventions people want democrats and essentially survives unless or recognize how fully is why congress is actually hear it yeah i know

so in these last days the opposite but there's a lot of it at times can be the institutions created during reconstruction of just disappeared last lecture by communities the battle here so is this the seasonal

process more after eighties is still been in the post labor day in his hope for a miracle right where we one of the important lessons of that is to be construction is this we as americans who are cousins of the history is always room for progress writers that these days and more than that suggests that are

as a man and right away you know and it happens in the next generation that's hebrew taking away the right to proceed with his racial segregation they are as you said this is so great really even notice

the cleveland native american progress how white house is that this virus is that is the universe and officials the twentieth century nineteen fifties sixties for another year or to merge with the war the federal forces and we're doing well registration is that it sends everybody the memory of reconstruction or how we should think about instruction because a great in the american bonds and buying the term essentially image of reconstruction has been faced in the american south as a term

state trustee months the problem is african americans this this this it's more stressful for two reasons first well i think it's part of the general national reconciliation of white america as a northern and southern veterans of those begin to know that the civil war was on and they also causes slavery which aired last come to be seen as just a way you say white americans

i was against the wages in some ways yes then just as he says so this article this list oh this is the black community a different memories your socks as ethereal accomplishment and hall in florida and the problem for them and this notion of the promise the

promise of education the processing construction these cases even remember like twenty seasons is really nice is this the analysis of this year today is still controversial americans this is the definition of civil rights well these strategies how do you interpret the fourteenth amendment every year history was trying to write how great interracial coalitions was the nature of race religion or chimneys on construction issues affirmative action alliance

a safe that what is the obligation of american society people and their descendants because the questions so as long as we have tensions across the race relations reconstruction songs instilled in a recession and then airport staff it is

one of his first class this is great the film is based on the book the clinton white house which is a voracious planets prosthesis history of reconstruction which you both of the reconstruction experience fan of african americans as being ignorant of savage though last and why white woman's plan to mobilize against the blacks and play euros and statewide cell phones and this is a justification the fact that it is so successful

is a saudi national opinion in the early twentieth century the film will have for us with woodrow wilson's president's versa born president since the civil war and the impulse is lightning and wilson's so you might say how are the barriers on a nail into called a reconstruction by the city's less my songs a collector wilson james was was that of course is racial segregation in their offices in washington dc so does that is that a juxtaposition of those residents younger a nation i suggest you try it out was so why you know the civil war and reconstruction as the national

is the maintenance we stay organized it was in efforts like the voice of those who walk film a river racing siegel which he didn't serve african americans but they never were able to get them and that's a big protest over this bouncy initiatives you're right

it's b well what was this is always impatient in science at any political already here is we know and we know now an important source of oil was inevitable that we don't need but that's really looked at it it was in the audience in the nation's these years they didn't know what was going on but really they saw the spirit rippled briefly you were great opportunity there were all sorts of things they all sorts of possibilities out there and to be honest and not just see as a test to the inevitable failure because it is that this is the excitement that the aspirations and opportunities in the hopes that were invested in that period which is really

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