FINALLY DESEGREGATED PUBLIC EDUCATION- THE BEST REPARATION - Perdaily.com

FINALLY DESEGREGATED PUBLIC EDUCATION- THE BEST REPARATION - Perdaily.com

FINALLY DESEGREGATED PUBLIC EDUCATION- THE BEST REPARATION

The Civil War ended in 1865 with the occupation of the South by Northern troops, which established a Reconstruction plan to try and dismantle the South's several centuries old culture founded on slavery and the institutionalized legal inferiority of African Americans. One of the proposed mechanisms to supposedly try and integrate Blacks into a reinvented Southern society was the proposal to give all ex-slaves 40 acres of land and a mule to make them econmically self sufficient. Regrettably, it never came to pass or things might be very different today.

In the presidential election of 1876, although Samuel J. Tilden, a Democrat from New York, beat Rutherford B. Hayes, a Republican from Ohio in the popular vote (50.9% to 47.9%), Hayes was nonetheless declared president in a shady deal memorialized by the Compromise of 1877, where Hayes was elected president by the electoral college through the key support of 4 Southern states. This Southern electoral college support was garnered by Hayes agreeing to support the Compromise of 1877, that called for the removal of all federal troops from the South. And with the removal of these troops came the re-institutionalization of Black second-class citizenship, which was given an anchronistic reprieve that even the civil rights movement of the much later 1960s and beyond has yet to dislodge from the South and elsewhere in the United States. Black Americans are still waiting to be given the equal opportunity that even immigrants, who came to this country hundreds of years after them, have been CONTINUE READING: FINALLY DESEGREGATED PUBLIC EDUCATION- THE BEST REPARATION - Perdaily.com