American Experience; Reconstruction: The Second Civil War; Interview with David W. Blight, Historian, Yale University, part 6 of 6

most of us in line with the senate which is about how the new person the cry well in black communities arm various members of the civil war and reconstruction survive course with our lives engaged in large scale and small scale commemorations in exhibitions think to try to create monuments sort of know what was post a

video of the republic ms portman right blacks voted against develop their own stories sometimes competing interests there were black leaders like booker t washington who developed a narrative reconciliation between western and western know how fast life to a kind of emancipation as those shoes visions never getting over you write a little bit about what those accords default assumption of touch with elements that worked in lincoln's life and sustain the loyalty to the republican party be on what some leverage

but what's also forge their own kind of popular culture the memory of the war and reconstruction commemorative devices there was lotion company or massachusetts and worthless and so for those motions and harriet tubman motions james vance brian barber fiftieth anniversary season of emancipation these exhibition celebration tiny towns in the south and the west and large eastern and southern cities revelation after another city there's a competing narratives that state and among blacks there were black leaders who are black should not focus so much on them that they should look

back so much sleep and particular issue while in the past the government lent itself to a sense of what a shame the visual for that you get beyond that you are presently vicious over there are two problems and their leader was going the fiftieth season is over the president is the police and he was of all of course in many kinds of writing voiceover wrote produced and directed a major city at norris nineteen thirteen called the star in ethiopia major patent for three days now but also just so on the january first nineteen thirty for a monthly fee

the fines for the status quo and then january first nineteen thirteen mission used to call a drone over and only one woman can certainly imagine being foremost he's dressed in such a way that someone else is global grain this is about this is about employers post that picture is drawing with the deaths of these issues through to nineteen thirty years is simple so weigh the same this is so great it is also someone's

also a moment of time of deep reflection because something was one that something is not that and in that issue and many other issues of crisis or black culture was a complex and somewhat conflicted discussion of just wonderfully immigrants in america it was the world of jim crow it was mean arguing the us side who were fellow foreign service a forum so now we're saying a system

very difficult so rich that stop them from song winter moon their own story because i couldn't resist the story so you find this a racial conflict in our commemoration of emancipation as one part somber reflection and one part celebration as it would be their opportunity today is that day they hear that day

you know event and they are so well known we will find a place of weakness we're it she is evidently denounced her whole cloth from whole cloth off as a script or as a movie in nineteen fifteen dw griffith had been making short short stories and does this became involved one of those islands so sure they have that kind of tryouts for some sort of residency

i was so determined not to be free flowing learns that he went out and buried is emancipation papers in the ground and this is still a loan to find that he's trying to prevent emancipation ever have such a virus or is that something that finding today wireless so the rage is very much trying to ensure the film's where the national guard is of course a collaboration and it's prettier and it's his passage across the country from los angeles to new york and elsewhere was a major event that some of this for me is cleansing operation was that song show

the nation and as you said there was a lot of resistance to deal with and its not enough but it is it laid down in this powerful me you know it's a store and merit a version of history that was that was so compelling and so widely believed so indeed seen the volcano since it perhaps have more influence on the broad popular general imagination of opening in memory of the civil war and reconstruction and perhaps anything

else is of course very popular history of reconstruction claude bowers called a tragic poet in nineteen twenty nine naughton is the center of the nation did not go along and contested contest about ambivalence there was a racial conflict a debate among black leadership benningfield there were celebrities well this is this is a storage and not so sore role in human history dozens of classic story where are

as usual but it was a great event and says people who find we'll know so of some sort but you also can honestly say we're saying essentially this legislation slaves in state reconstruction worse he's just black people in keeping with his immense wisdom or their liberation slave and sent them into a kind of racial condition of degeneration toward the stands

in post second generation and the one i'll weapon can get moving on that kind of psycho sexual feed the heart of the story of reconstructions of course lent itself so nice to this nine romantic vision who cooks clinton's of course clinton won't you wouldn't hear of it last week is it these

days i suppose home is but these more stereotypes well on our way down year after year are not routine and kind of literature because again the harbor of the nation says is his message now the ku klux klan citizens so heroes of the storm but for the international hiv there was saving the nation from racial core they were preserving white supremacy american nation upon which was based on resisting those demons fiendish

and wyoming's in south new crisis of leadership positions rose libertarian race like challenge was mostly mysteries susie plano where the mission all kinds of racial politics are all kinds of all of those information of racial attitudes we don't see reason why last year the first part of the war and of the nation and found first large scale thousands of movies isn't found a few the university of ottawa so investors who is the eurozone's

with a confederate soldier who has defeated well we won't play that could not one to speak openly british firm wouldn't all of the heart moscow is the only knows that subject was well when a great big nation is a fan so grab

please why a lot of those states as indeed an icon of the dreaded question the reconstruction records are plenty has never before begin in the book and the movie wrong to win only is all about reconstruction about what happens in the polls for south scholars family and of course you get a green card to corrupt politician this range droids borges ruffalo get you get you get images and feeling the press what in the long run though the night in south america

oppressed under duress the nobles or the november night in america that americans want to see and believe in second great depression and south of course not at all as soon as the senate envisions a place where we can go to see are trying to see your deepest close your property to see are juicier conflicts and the south in women's that south that so with all the crushed by war and reconstruction providers violence and that's not to suggest that there was a tremendously are lessons the long winter and deep as

louie movies and you know that the story has appeared in the early nineteen hundreds with the book that it's kind of unique in that the journalist lennon's later years to have legal career but he also important story writer formal training what you wrote about nineteen thirty the fiftieth anniversary of emancipation called the facts of reconstruction she's essentially his own stories in part and ben ali's russian politician essentially erased the facts of

reconstruction and defense of the reconstruction story about the time in the world it's deposited reconstruction the progressive coalitions in education the expansion workable creation of all public facilities home and it is part of what was the really counterattack if you will i'm a tragic legend americans and jewish and then later other professional americans during the thirties forties fifties when the history of reconstruction project about nineteen sixties and seventies will undergo a fundamental lynch's book facts of reconstructions reinvention all the law and the reconstructions but is still and him

home and sciences now four and five deputies world series for was a scholarship revising in fundamental ways isn't rich story or instructions to those here is that was mistake was too much too far that it was the tragic aftermath of the glorious war is still a difficult period for face up to do because it shows the floor that shows unscripted shows that trend that makes a state of history to have to do all along or you

is it owen most extraordinary vision one of the institutions now of the civil war and second isn't this the st lawrence manages among digital messages were infantry and robert ritual sean moore which is what it is the graves

sean moore the caption of shorthand is troops marching down the constant moving sound wall in the sixties who catches a particular kind of merit particular kind of storm is consensual and tragedies because they're marching towards us the word of course ability to catch old milo many black men college and enter the studio to to competition is telling a story here a black soldiers marching today because in american society there were men on that there were eligible

citizens with their troops aren't the same and in the new money you can see the story of how the civil war was being transformed through enormous suffering through genuine tragedy into a war for something greater than just the preservation of the audience being fought now for the re creation of creating something new a new recall a reborn society that and somehow incorporate the futures of those men and it's an especially compelling and very often in ways americans think about supports a little ways mountains through integration within the larger buying generic terms think and often have an image of that generic solitude stanley grossman was nascent single

soldier hollow on lehman's muscular music has also been called sullivan show sean sales of the civil war was not just kind of generic soldiers who was not just about war soldier was not just about but something from the album called consequence some of those boomers usual moral issue michelin starred fifty four rescues weren't solved were mindful supporters meanings of the civil war and just fight just drunk and still want to talk about it it is he's

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