cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/62976508
Just 10 years ago the US was still seen as being progressive and racism was slowly becoming a thing of the past… and not even in 10 years all the major civil rights achievements of rhe past 70 years are being thrown out so fast it is making my head spin.
I think he’s talking about the backlash to the progresses in civil rights, not that Reconstruction itself was a loss for Civil Rights, but that it was undermined by white supremacists, and later dismantled after the abrupt end of Reconstruction.