![]() Franklin, chairman of the History Department of Brooklyn College, already John Hope Franklin's "Reconstruction: After the Civil War" fills this yawning gap, and with notable balance and judicious temper, tells an old story in a new light. Reflecting modern scholarship and current ideas, has been painfully lacking. A few, like Eric McKitrick, have published important studies modifying the traditional view. While American thought in general was rejecting racist ideas of the inferiority of the Negro, with their corollaries of segregation, disfranchisement and discrimination, our historiesĬontinued to treat the attempt to establish Negro equality during Reconstruction as a mistake, a crime, or even an absurdity and to cast the champions of equality in the role of villains.įor some time now historians have recognized this anomaly increasingly they have called for a new version of Reconstruction history. Or at least two or three decades, the available histories of the Reconstruction period, following the Civil War, have presentedĪ conspicuous case of cultural lag. NovemFreedom Without Equality By DAVID M. ![]()
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