Word: reconstructionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Claude Kirk, 41, a Florida businessman and political tenderfoot, got himself elected last November as the state's first Republican Governor since Reconstruction. Last week, in a special legislative election necessitated by redistricting, Kirk led the G.O.P. to a position of power unprecedented anywhere in the modern South.
Manchester interviewed such historic walk-ons as the presidential baggage-master, J.F.K.'s White House French teacher and a soldier who carried a wreath in the funeral procession. He examined the coffin in which Kennedy's body was brought to Washington, studied Jackie's bloodied pink dress...
The war conference the President will hold this week in Guam will probably be a re-run of the ones he attended in Honolulu and Manila. American efforts to help South Vietnam along the road to peace, prosperity, and democracy will be stressed. The new South Vietnamese constitution may receive...
Filling the Gap. Despite the new mood of concern in Natchez, however, Mississippi's standards of justice still leave something to be desired. More than a dozen Negroes and civil rights workers have either been murdered or died mysteriously there in the past three years without a single conviction...
No Choice. What he has been is remarkable in political history. Both of his Negro predecessors in the Senate went to Washington as symbols of Yankee vindictiveness against the South during the Reconstruction era?and both were puppet politicians. The first, an itinerant preacher named Hiram Rhodes Revels, was picked...