American Experience; Reconstruction: The Second Civil War; Interview with Ted Tunnell, Historian, Virginia Commonwealth University, part 3 of 5

he's nominated twenty seconds car out that the core of which is hoosier lot during the regular to be looking and we all are what bodes as the state exchanges and on to the martian surface of his life in the purchase i think honestly

at this and compared with a star like plantation western vermont with just a bunch of rocks and mountains so he puts you success or are opportunity to sell his three sisters and his brother and his mother and relocate that's the plantation he finds job when jobs jobs are on the plantation though only going down for the economic opportunity that the old rather than our own

couture by state storyline at sixteen on between sony and renewed parish is creating at seventy one all this coincides with the m wise recovery that takes place in the state in the south in the first rehearsal war really devastated at sixty eight of the firm's bc cotton crop since that week period of relative prosperity here in louisiana's out at sixty nine eighty seven the eighties and they want to creation all these years later at the same time when he's in the legislature they create a song sean

that he uses of wine buying politicians in the crescent city to get this paris treaty so not only is he walk into the area to joke but he's comparatively popular among whites a popular among blacks good jobs here at ces which has the report i don't find that using those tarps i am in the sense that the word was used there were there was a contingent of a spiral of inclusion of that is made by republicans who supported that is

what republicans became allies of torture although some of the people who supported michel remained democrats he has a following that cuts across party lines republicans and democrats know understandably know whites who are learning of republicanism or his friends spouses scout scout on me we created

to scrub to a local insurer appointees for the police who are you and the governor approves these appointments the effects of twitter as the appointment power over there it wasn't you get a lot of losses to the family to the republicans we also applies to just two losses among local whites no more enthusiastic about it now they're words he tried to walk twice what the people of this town you know to hire reconstruction contracts is this question of the legitimacy government's black suffrage so to make your government's legitimate why republicans try to pull the

whites into the republican party they think they can pull a significant number of white people in the party so he kind of low life this week and as soon as the military as soon as the economy starts to sweat is people start to desert the same time you have a disputed election eighteens only to the entire study into turmoil it becomes another reason for people who at first were willing to support it which in government or in some way to four ways to very quickly very quickly it's why hal i start to

pull away and he becomes more and more dependable members of his family one black republicans of one why it's more the recipients of patronage but now the state is falling because it's not safe by pointing to local officials in naples republicans to get your feet in the ground for four to control local says that star and that puts them in a better position to control elections that are running this

and the problem here is that the point of this strategy is part of a warner republican strategy of combating terrorism but terrorism in at fifty eight election is so intense that the republicans very quickly realized that if the state doesn't have been are you what is the mind state not on stage but in the presidential election really realize that you had this kind of was that election so how are you how you deal with people who want to literally destroy the rebels destroyed in that it from the law the republicans not just that they were sent to live with a new orleans police and put them under the governor give the government

control over a constabulary in the process so that they can control elections elections weren't they create a state which has the power to go online election returns in italy overturned the if they find fraud does occur and then it was that it sort of subtly and says you create new parishes where he reorganized and lawrence mooney reorganize it the government gets to appoint all of the new officials who will serve until the next election if there's sixteen edition so to me i said interchange to do you know the

political situation in which a new book a copy we are sisters republicans in working or two how to protect us against night nine years how mass murder in ten republican voters republicans once that uses policy i call it the policy forest and centralize the state that put the police and the job creators that determined the problem is they are republicans or here creating the instrument on one party new der tactics are as what you're doing is as

destructive as the terrorist tactics of their opponents and what waters of american history can be trusted with a returning warrior is the newly empowered can simply altered election comes and will ferrell actor we're trying to protect themselves this is very this policy of force creates more questions of legitimacy when they use this apparatus to stay not only does it make mating louisiana's even more visit an even more convinced that they are a circus it was still undermines their legitimacy and then the question is

is that what that was the way that it's built like new leaders say the legitimacy of

these bees last week in florida they acquiesced what's intriguing as the economy starts to slip you had in the depression at seventy three the sense of intense reason tiedemann returns they can't they never they are always convinced that the yankees didn't in power simply because they thought it was the right thing that we were trying to protect the fruits of victory the only reason i didn't do this just because they were going to they were mean spirited means to her and only with violent society local car with a skull censors it would associate with

the white people filmmaking seventies you have a number of things that he wanted the northeast more and more reluctant to use federal power supported republicans in the senate the economy is simply four white's letters and use violence to for an increasingly realize that places like vietnam was the only way to really republicans in east london and the radiology is it's really justifies these these are written a certain regions these elite necessarily justified in returning

soldier excuse me southern edge but if you doesn't read the speeches they're politicians the impression is that they sincerely believe that they are victims of the most criminal regimes in the history of the world then the history of mankind no people have ever been sober person has with other people acted pursuant that to allay these northern league over the so called riders are unscrupulous didn't choose to land why are in the

foods to me republicans are unscrupulous the loans that they live in kind of fence sue people why people like a bill and steve why the darkness from the asians in your imagination you know in the head at seventy four in big part because of the enforcement acts that are that president presses stopped and why well in the case of before the second wave of violence sweeps across the deep south the white meat is at war and life in louisiana and a white patient in the

states three point lead i think to start with a publication called the crack at published in alexandria well ok a caucasian put up call that the next election and the ottomans and they were like you as got the election that pits black men get for that is that is what this election is about big forward group of the loop of

white people of the state or a nice join the white we join the white man's four foot into this activist losses very crime and this white bean when other newspapers they get out and at its weakest the state for whites no matter where you are it's very difficult to resist an unwinding of the testosterone or so join us to show unity with whites for if you don't join the perverts of criminals of the republican party and this is an unlikely ally the us plan like the nights in white of the use white wine organizations around the widely he noticed the notices for its bees are boiling advertised

in the newspaper didn't even if they were legit were times in an activist people blame themselves as the war you want to your car and we started with an admonition killing white women or white man is in the next election why did thirty wind has relevance of the river the year what are they actually sell more so are a lot of people who were recently of course into it but that what really makes no bones about what he intends to do there is an editorial in the most important newspaper

industry or times when the streets were times publishes the oracle trim costs we do yes that if the republican returning more tries to counter any twitchell over somebody else and missed a number of appointees then they must be cheating in flat you know he will

personally give the senators is reinhard riedl of the members is that while a place in louisiana it was a consequence of his parents and down river valley artist is that democrats and republicans are they religion you have a serious race riots in this region by both parents at age sixty eight in a whole new system at sixty eight to blacken the region have reason to be right industry and marketing at sixty eight republicans take control of the coal that courthouse is locked up and break it they take control of it to share a point is to protect and we're outside of just an old saying that's been converted into forts

whites in the region are rolling about in games posses friedman are alarmed the exact sequence of events is it's hard to know but what i would begin to gather with their families in march and april eighteen seventy three at school last that concentration was a concentration of equal size from whites in the community and its than whites in maine now and the grossness of this out they live and weave the growth of that they lived in this fantasy world where movie villains are always going on they plan to give reagan but they act as if they anticipate the very first sign of threat they can crawl out of

them if you're going to get you're looking to seek release black mozart that's the whitest white certify the concentration watson kovacs it's in the context of this disputed election guerilla warfare is spread across much of the state and a new zealanders could receive its fullest expression right here early april nearly a whole black and this is a building this year ago fact that a white from boston police shooting down the block this father arnold's father scared like the region warmly had a ripple effect and whites increased in april thirty at seventy three you have a two sides will not a couple of hundred friedman

in their families gathered around the courthouse and a couple hundred mounted whites in certain leroy of whites in a long list that as a medium unusual character than in life missouri when third say and along with the nfl film's say that they then attacked and now goes back and people see that he is likely to get women to radical clerics and justice warren thirty minutes later i want to talk several arm y halls meza wife's have sharp elbows of the rights to the white sea that it can for workers the world and they take a cannon and new rule will reply and by his ata that they get they can

position where is in calais they call the enabling the courthouse in kabul they're using chunks of myron barber shop a few blackened blasphemous can't and the blacks in the continent has rotted they scatter one one of your staple the decision to run the achilles tendon a substantial number of them maybe the courthouse murals table and the last thirty hour winds haven't really into blazing away the white force a black man with a look at changes that were to roll across about you and suppliers say well there are times that he was inflamed the people inside was a ribbing from the building white south side at some point saying that is

going to come or not to surrender they opened fire the state be kept in a state of shock some million number of them never saying yes by late afternoon the stable is burning airplane here the ground of blue black bodies but thirty black men are taken prisoner might want to act directs the last july is the question and he passes that often we're told by heavily armed men lined the banks they ceded it was he knew

shalit so and narrator mandolin in the whole market prices and this is the guy someone sees a black man at its allies is the black line the guy raise a black dog of shoe because a jury to find a black man this is on that problem when elmo and the guy assumed around issues the billboards lisa miller of flesh here they do is that every year you have to a pair of black prisoners and i mean people are calling out my name

and why militants know what regina benjamin britten and you know and we are marching off the procession benjamin britten's your shots coming from the procession of issue the prisoners years ago in the times and some issues in the fights he goes that he plays dead last innings those makes noises now been priced out the new year is not good yet and she says that they're losing his back home brown rihanna slave uses the guy plays their whole life that they tell their story there's

been a what all they hear us marshal cohen the political class and take out fifty nine was just badgering one and a very nice people and they number fifty i clearly visible riders shot him or why so as the statin even so some rooted in an arrested i've been lost from the set how we not for leading the federal investigation and likely will carefully carefully witnesses and the same with wide a history of reconstruction one of the two three months while episodes in the history of warner history of black people in

america why is that mm hmm that there are people close to you who were in war in cold facts you are next role in and that's what happened at cold fact is going to happen to you ms law and he goes to see why it is in the shadow of the availability of mainly an attempt to reassure him that he have been worried because new death that

these invaders call the opening the fuel pools of water oh really we were you guys to do and why and whether that's the reason they can be you know joseph is

close to coming up to an important aspect of the goldfish florida is that the republican leaders who orchestrated because that is the people responsible for breaking into the courthouse the workers say up the complexion black veterans why is forty this season in really bad about and they see that i really the latin political facts lyrical you know this is big data if the saloon and

if they want to be kill it so it's a no win situation what they are why they're putting up resistance they're sending re organize these why that is why he is to go into to the final analysis this is this

because it's been proven do you remember it has been a liberal by a huge law of non white leads us down a new orleans his family his officials will open the way

he views that river have for the us why he gets both whitey it within perhaps it's up in the air landy is going to so they can go through now is the biggest fish to if you want to get the troops to revert back to the river but he can't prove until something have you late august as the market or with grandpa you have increasingly serious incidents and attacks on him strangeness here are teeth and they

say that they have come to kill republicans we are has a run in with a couple of these people and nothing comes out immediately but later then i had a group of prominent white says is an attack approach to show up with a couple of the republicans in new orleans says around them and they say they want to use for a commodore puttin get cholera and the reason the daily basis to women today these people they are readying the republicans they are heavily armed and somebody who are you to the vote and republicans these republican officials is that if we dont rest is for shopping district why is

that one of the incidents that are unknown quantities of vendor or perish of hull and fuses this way to let lake want says an incident involving a couple walking into it exactly how it started but late night late in a one of the white women rise to a blackout in an unmanned this that people inside the now blackberry goes up the chimney in the state and once he's lucky in haiti last night and inside they use us the next day this year they go out to investigate there are rumors of black

the only evidence of a kind of anything is this for black man who's been shot this they take depositions from his family in the deal that they share let not there is a debt plan at and at lowe's new rates to work in china and the dance has just aren't about does when someone great city only ones running it says lily rose i do why is that thing is happening at brown's but nonetheless the rumors that black is that grow up wiping the parish has i've been

organizing the militias against their white english is called out they are guarding the streets to claim that they are guarding the town from black why it's wrong what this black market which is presumably down at brownsville which no one has been able to find the what makes this explanation for us is that the dance goes on at home in one minute down to brownsville there's eighty nine miles away from the massacres and they say united vs

well wyoming that they assume one while white relations are patrolling the state's republican spirit who were traitorous outside in tent blackmun in the surrounding area of curiosity about wanting to know what's going on or if he had some of the law on the gathered reporters after about twenty five or thirty of these black forest and the house is elevated off all the ground or we could put them under the house so they are re twenty three black farmers in the house watching movies doing will always little and again they're in those terrible track if they were nice to defend themselves and they then they added fuel to the rulers of black ribbon they go just to take simply because they do about this is that the roundup of what you do or to actually sign

just glorious as is why she won one blackwater opened up a couple now and white views of a man named joe dickson john dickson john dickson perry is hit and wounded but white we now has its incident it's so basic evidence that the black rebellion has begun and that not all of the nuts lightly used to live in the countryside that the rebellion has begun the newspaper's importance reported in the newspapers more than eight hundred and

bloodthirsty black who are marching one can chat they are fighting for is not only what the vision is what republicans it was our route to the white pelicans are presumably eating really so this platt as the story gets told me told becomes lawson sort of them are portraits of his twenty four hours but with a leash wants to take over the terror and great all white women and the terror always people were preoccupied is or as occasionally the media

does it's only fifty sixty why you can shatter notion of portland oregon had taken with my own nose is why we simply absurd mr epstein mm hmm political and six other republicans are rested in the street and a lot in the basement apartment that it's more along with eighty five republicans and then the next day they hold the trial to complain trial they need six republicans up from the basement and they

will walk through the day charged for being the leaders in this what although only get one down to specifics the only specific me mention is that they were implicated in the shooting of this jim dickson john gets more whites whiter than white men in this trial for much of the day on saturday in late afternoon these six white officials in writing signing ottoman in which they promise to resign their offices and in the louisiana juvenile are all fixed in

the next day the next day the six republicans are mounting and then they have an escort of twenty five and thirty white new market be your escort out how the parish up to shreveport where they look at the texas pacific trend over more complex is known to be honest in st louis let's say that the republicans were permitted to choose the garden me how they are the guards were chosen by thomas allen and the republicans were permitted to object to any of the guards that they've been wanting an objection mainly objected to one man and that man in the car the issue now is it fb