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...whit for the Negroes. When Johnson's aim became clear, many Republicans thought they had been betrayed and turned against him. Johnson's difficulties with the Congress multiplied when, through his ineptness, the planter class, not the yoemanry, gained ascendence in the Southern states. The aristocrats proceeded to enact the Black Codes, stripping the Negro of the educational, economic, and political opportunities which the Radicals had tried to secure...
...Civil War and one interested in helping to make the sacrifices of our forefathers meaningful to the general public, and as one who believes our heritage belongs to all the people and not just to the long-faced historian, I with my sons have participated in battle re-enactments over the past four years [April 16]. Vicarious though the experience may have been, we can begin to appreciate what Bruce Catton is writing about. We have stood on the heights at Manassas, Antietam and Gettysburg and watched the battle flags advance over the hallowed ground. Forgive...
...Eisenhower. With $100,000 a year to spend, the commission wrote up plans to give historical dignity to a succession of battle anniversaries. But dignity all too often went down the drain. Practically from the outset, Civil War buffs wearing uniforms and carrying old muskets set out to re-enact alt the war's major battles. At Bull Run, in July 1961, 70,000 spectators cheered more than 2,000 men and boys as they replayed the battle, charging across the battlefield, shooting blanks, and falling off their horses. Casualties at 1961's Bull Run: 185 cases...
...matter what the accusation. The only federal charge that can be leveled in most cases-such as in the Liuzzo murder-deals with "denying the civil rights" of the victim, and the maximum penalty for the crime is only ten years in prison. Even though Congress might now enact legislation outlawing the Klan, the deeper problem is that the law alone can never erase the Klan mentality...
...Congress ought to go even further than these proposals; after passing the voting bill, it ought to enact a statute or a Constitutional amendment making a minimum age, a minimum length of residence, and mental competence the only qualification a state can impose on its voters...