Post by the Scribe on Jun 6, 2020 10:02:25 GMT
Make NO mistake about it, slavery and all its miserable agenda was carried out by confederates which were the conservatives of their day. It was especially prominent in the South where these racist conservatives populated the Democratic Party all the way up until Liberals from the Democratic Party AND Liberals from the Republican Party joined together to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act. NOT one conservative voted for it. Don't believe the propaganda from right wing noise that constantly calls the Democratic Party the party of slavery. It is a misnomer.
Historian Eric Foner On The 'Unresolved Legacy Of Reconstruction'
June 5, 20201:42 PM ET
Heard on Fresh Air
Terry Gross square 2017
TERRY GROSS
Fresh Air
33-Minute Listen ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2020/06/20200605_fa_01.mp3?orgId=427869011&topicId=1136&d=2028&p=13&story=870459750&dl=1&siteplayer=true&size=32389224&dl=1
After the Civil War, the federal government promised former slaves equality and citizenship. Historian Eric Foner says the failed promises reverberate today. Originally broadcast Jan. 9, 2006.
Hear The Original Interview
America: 'Forever Free,' but Not Yet Whole
DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth Watching, sitting in for Terry Gross. Protests across the nation demanding justice and policing reforms after the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis are now in their second week. Today we listen back to an interview from our archives which examines some of the historical roots of institutionalized racism in our country.
Our guest, Eric Foner, is a professor of history at Columbia University who's been writing about America's complicated racial history for decades. His first book, in 1970, was about the Civil War and the Republican Party. In 2006 (ph), he wrote the book called "Forever Free." It was about the post-Civil War period and the political resistance, particularly from Southern states, to the newly adopted constitutional amendments abolishing slavery and guaranteeing racial equality and voting rights for all Americans.
What Eric Foner wrote then is sadly just as true today. Foner said, quote, "The unresolved legacy of Reconstruction remains a part of our lives. In movements for social justice that have built on the legal and political accomplishments of Reconstruction and in the racial tensions that still plague American society, the momentous events of Reconstruction reverberate in modern day America," unquote.
Terry Gross spoke with Eric Foner in 2006 when "Forever Free: The Story Of Emancipation and Reconstruction" was first published.
Historian Eric Foner On The 'Unresolved Legacy Of Reconstruction'
June 5, 20201:42 PM ET
Heard on Fresh Air
Terry Gross square 2017
TERRY GROSS
Fresh Air
33-Minute Listen ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2020/06/20200605_fa_01.mp3?orgId=427869011&topicId=1136&d=2028&p=13&story=870459750&dl=1&siteplayer=true&size=32389224&dl=1
After the Civil War, the federal government promised former slaves equality and citizenship. Historian Eric Foner says the failed promises reverberate today. Originally broadcast Jan. 9, 2006.
Hear The Original Interview
America: 'Forever Free,' but Not Yet Whole
DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth Watching, sitting in for Terry Gross. Protests across the nation demanding justice and policing reforms after the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis are now in their second week. Today we listen back to an interview from our archives which examines some of the historical roots of institutionalized racism in our country.
Our guest, Eric Foner, is a professor of history at Columbia University who's been writing about America's complicated racial history for decades. His first book, in 1970, was about the Civil War and the Republican Party. In 2006 (ph), he wrote the book called "Forever Free." It was about the post-Civil War period and the political resistance, particularly from Southern states, to the newly adopted constitutional amendments abolishing slavery and guaranteeing racial equality and voting rights for all Americans.
What Eric Foner wrote then is sadly just as true today. Foner said, quote, "The unresolved legacy of Reconstruction remains a part of our lives. In movements for social justice that have built on the legal and political accomplishments of Reconstruction and in the racial tensions that still plague American society, the momentous events of Reconstruction reverberate in modern day America," unquote.
Terry Gross spoke with Eric Foner in 2006 when "Forever Free: The Story Of Emancipation and Reconstruction" was first published.