Word: reconstructionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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> Blacks continued their advance into and up the political ranks. By 574 votes, Tennessee Democrat Harold E. Ford, 29, upset Republican Congressman Dan Kuykendall, bringing the number of blacks in the House of Representatives to 17. In Colorado, Democrat George Brown was elected Lieutenant Governor, and State Senator Mervyn Dymally...
But no nationally-based economy is possible without dependence on PRG-controlled areas, and the gigantic Saigon army, bureaucracy, and urban refugee population are also impressive obstacles to postwar reconstruction. According to the Vietnam Resource Center in Cambridge, "What the Saigon regime and the World Bank have in mind is...
Any group providing entertainment of a controversial nature to a diverse community has a responsibility to consider the reactions of those groups in the community with different perspectives from their own. It is important to air controversial issues in such a community, but those issues should be presented in a...
The presentation of the second showing will be by Professor William Scott, visiting lecturer at Harvard and chairman of the Black Studies Program at Wellesley College, according to the Afro statement. Scott will present several 20th century interpretations of the Reconstruction era, and will outline a brief history of the...
"Birth of a Nation," directed by pioneer silent-film maker D.W. Griffith, was released in 1915. It is generally considered a landmark film--it was the first to use moving cameras and night filming. It presents a militantly anti-black view of the South during Reconstruction