There is this great line from C. Vann Woodward in The Strange Career of Jim Crow about why reconstruction failed:
“Just as the Negro gained emancipation and new rights through a falling out between white men, he now stood to lose his rights through the reconciliation of white men.”
“Just as the Negro gained emancipation and new rights through a falling out between white men, he now stood to lose his rights through the reconciliation of white men.”
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