[Unedited] John Biewen with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Reconstruction of the South Carolina State Legislative Assembly
In south carolina in the eighteen sixties, it was a majority blacky state legislatr legislature. The majority in the state legislature, ermet men, who had two thousand black men elected to office during the reconstruction at the state and federal levels. And that this wasn't just like a week or a year. It was about a decade or so. Then, ah, the, you know, white supremises, a movements, the clan and others in the south were were violently resisting a and a fighting this. But but that the extent to which it just how dramatic and radic, as i said before, how radical that change was for a time,. We could have created
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