S4 E4: The Second Revolution
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The White Southern Backlash of the 1870s
The white southern backlash started right after the war and never let up. In 18 65 and 66, most of the southern state legislatures passed black codes. Benjamin franklin randolph was a free black man who had been a school principal in buffalo, new york when he volunteered to serve the union army. It is he who helps to push forward the policies about education. And it is he who is killed while travelling and campaigning in a place near abenville, south carolina.
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