Reconstruction: Why We Didn't Learn About It
Civics 101
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The Importance of Standards and Textbooks in Reconstruction
The core of this movement, the radical visioning and the revolution to establish a much more equitable country gets misrepresented or just lost in a lot of narratives. A lot of standards today still use the term carpet baggers and scalawags, which are terms that were mainly used by white southerners to belittle northerners who move south. So they often use those descriptions without really being critical of them or providing more context. The way that white supremacists very intentionally destroyed it precisely because of its successes.
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