Monster Essays - First And Second Reconstructio
First and Second Reconstructions
The First and Second Reconstructions held out the great
promise of rectifying racial injustices in America. The First
Reconstruction, emerging out of the chaos of the Civil War had as its
goals equality for Blacks in voting, politics, and use of public
facilities. The Second Reconstruction emerging out of the booming
economy of the 1950's, had as its goals, integration, the end of Jim
Crow and the more amorphous goal of making America a biracial
democracy where, "the sons of former slaves and the sons of former
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