Black political power was at its height during Reconstruction. What happened?
In this first episode of “History Refocused,” we learn how a former slave’s story shows both the immense power of the vote and the community-shattering effects when it’s taken away by violence. Abby Phillip talks with CNN’s Brandon Tensley to discuss why federal intervention was key both in the Reconstruction years and still today.
Chapters:
00:00-03:02 American Reconstruction and the Black vote
03:03-07:42 The story of Oscar James Dunn (1822-1871)
07:42-12:23 Echoes of federal intervention, 1871 to present
Oscar James Dunn:
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I always thought it was obvious why, President: Lincoln were shot. It was because he freed the slaves and with the slavery freedom.
The slaves had the right to live their life. Which also included voting!
@Meet up Speak up I don’t care if it hurts you or not. It’s the truth
@Old man Biscuit That’s the point naive! . Now, I understand , you want to hear cursing, an outlandish words. But I don’t use those type of words. I just… State the truth. ✌️ .
@Meet up Speak up no. I just wanted you to understand that the reason Lincoln was assassinated. I’m sorry you can’t grasp it
@Old man Biscuit Did you actually read my comment. My point: Lincoln freed the slaves. I wasn’t interested in the reason. And I’m sure the slaves wasn’t either.
@Meet up Speak up he also said “if I could win this war without freeing the slaves I would”
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@Hunter that’s right they don’t.
The next few elections they will need to have monitoring to protect people who vote and people who work at the polls
That was a pretty good little mini documentary. Kinda makes me wanna re watch the rise and fall of Jim Crow.
It’s a historical film to teach the next generation.
“In the eyes of the vast majority of white Americans, the refusal of the southern states to fully free or enfranchise former slaves and their descendants was not an issue worthy of any further disruption to the civil stability of the United States. Black Americans were exchanged for a sense of white security.”
― Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
“Hundreds of forced labor camps came to exist, scattered throughout the South operated by state and county governments, large corporations, small-time entrepreneurs, and provincial farmers. These bulging slave centers became a primary weapon of suppression of black aspirations. Where mob violence or the Klan terrorized black citizens periodically, the return of forced labor as a fixture in black life ground pervasively into the daily lives of far more African Americans.
— Douglas A. Blackmon
“Alabama legislature swiftly passed a measure under which the orphans of freed slaves, or the children of blacks deemed inadequate parents, were to be “apprenticed” to their former masters. The South Carolina planter Henry William Ravenel wrote in September 1865: “There must… be stringent laws to control the ____________, & require them to fulfill their contracts of labor on the farms.”
@Kaipo 808 KKK another FINE creation of the democrat Party. Racist Democrats = KKK BLM Antifa
@Leaving YouTube.Moving to rumble African-American support for Democrats began to rise long before the 1960’s. African-Americans drifted away from the GOP long before the Civil Rights Act. A majority of black voters went for virulent racist Woodrow Wilson in 1912, attracted by his progressive platform.
In 1948, Harry Truman insisted on including a strong civil rights plank in the party’s platform. Southerners walked out of the Democratic National Convention in protest and ran Strom Thurmond as their “Dixiecrat” nominee.
The task of the GOP was to fuse two, unlinked political movements – the drive for segregation and the rollback of the New Deal. That required the South to go along with attacking political programs that were extremely popular with the people of the South (e.g., electrification, national highways, Social Security, Medicare-Medicaid, and other New Deal programs) and for Northern Republicans to tolerate and approve of segregation and the preservation of the Jim Crow social order and white Southern way of life.
Segregation and violence, up to and including lynching, is justified in order to perpetuate white dominance of the social order in the South.
— William F. Buckley, Jr., National Review
What’s more realistic?
1) That an entire region of the United States that supported slavery in the late-1800′s and supported segregation in the 1950′s and 60′s suddenly stopped being racist, or
2) The racist southern Democrats in the south became Republicans during the 50′s and 60′s when the Republican party shifted toward an idea called the “Southern Strategy,” where the GOP appealed to the racism in southern whites who didn’t like African Americans voting for Democrats.
— Allen Clifton, November 24, 2013
“Commentators today tend to downplay the extent to which race and slavery contributed to the Framers’ creation of the Electoral College, in effect whitewashing history: Of the considerations that factored into the Framers’ calculus, race and slavery were perhaps the foremost.”
— Dr. Will Codrington, 11/17/19
Probably because slavery was common, and is even still practiced in Africa, and Asia today.
@John Freedman AMENDMENT XIII, UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, JANUARY 31, 1865
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
“By 1900, the South’s judicial system had been wholly reconfigured to make one of its primary purposes the coercion of African Americans to comply with the social customs and labor demands of whites. It was not coincidental that 1901 also marked the final full disenfranchisement of nearly all blacks throughout the South. Sentences were handed down by provincial judges, local mayors, and justices of the peace—often men in the employ of the white business owners who relied on the forced labor produced by the judgments.”
― Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
CNN why isn’t she on in one of your prime time spots
Well this has been very educational and insightful actually🤔
Great job Abby! I knew some of this especially when it comes to being from Louisiana. The additional history I wasn’t aware of.
Great show this is an example of never too late. Our fellow citizens of color have never had the same ability/right 2 vote and have their voices heard. It should b embarrassing 4 white citizens that believe in the simplest and most important part of a democracy. One person one vote is all they have been asking for in a word equality.
Why should white people be embarrassed?
Fun fact: More “unarmed black men” die from constipation every year than at the hands of the police (from whom, per police encounter, white people more often meet their demise).
@Jay Jay no pretty sure black people or unarmed black men or whatever are shot by cops more than whites in proportion to population
Great segment! Please keep them coming 👍
I read a lot of the comments from this video and I believe that if some of these commenters could meet face to face, they would probably kill each other.
Whenever they could legally vote.
History I’ve never heard wow
“The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them”.
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The slaves had the right to live their life. Which also included voting!