Talk:Reconstruction
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Perhaps the page could also use a discussion of the "Radical Reconstructionism" which was proposed and rejected; i.e. the stringing up of Confederate leaders, stripping property from southern plantation owners and distributing it to freed slaves, etc.
This page should be disambiguated in some way. First, there the word reconstruction in general. Next, we have Reconstruction. That is explained here as the period after the US Civil War, but I bet there are more countries were periods are called Reconstruction in one way or another. Any suggestions for a good way to disambiguate? jheijmans, Friday, June 28, 2002
- I moved it to disambiguate. If anyone disagrees very much, feel free to move it back.--Pharos 19:03, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Also the text is hopelessly POV or downright incorrect: "Much of the impetus for Reconstruction involved the question of civil rights for the freed slaves in the southern states" It was a matter for civil rights of African Americans whether or not they ever had been slaves. Even if you consider as legitiamate the decree issued in the dying days of Dixie that all African Americans were deemed slaves, this would not account for African Americans living in the North who had never been slaves bu who had journeyed to the south. And this is just one issue with the etxt. How come no mention of Thaddeus Stevens???? Harry Potter
I agree that the page needs much more work--and a good starting point would be discussing Thaddeus Stevens. I frankly do not understand much of the rest of what Harry Potter says, but the best way to resolve those uncertainties is for someone to take him up on his suggestion to expand and rewrite this. I do not, however, think that it lacks a NPOV; on the contrary, it accurately restates the general outlines of the history of this era.
As an aside, I have corrected some of the confusion caused by failure to distinguish state-mandated from private discrimination. The same problem was built into the article on Jim Crow. Italo Svevo.
hmmm, just reading in my history book - it says that there were ~20,000 soldiers stationed in the south, can anybody verify that?? --Mobius 09:09, Mar 19, 2004 (UTC)
"The initial flurry of Reconstruction civil rights measures was eroded and converted into laws that expanded racial dictatorship throughout American institutions and everyday life. The resurrection and expansion of the racist society provided a solid basis for both the pronounced limitations of the American labor movement and the associated paucity and frailty of democratic social entitlements in the U.S." -- BIASED?
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Under "Culture Clashes", the last paragraph is "1870 (Georgia was the last on July 15), and all but 500 Confederate sympathizers were pardoned when President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Amnesty Act on May 22, 1872. Reconstruction nev" — nev-what? Anyone know what that should be? Thanx 68.39.174.150 23:20, 26 May 2005 (UTC)