HISTORY N100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Double V Campaign, Yuri Kochiyama, Richard Aoki
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Enslaved people newly freed roaming the south looking for their family. 1866 civil rights act: legal support/enforcement of 13th, 14th, 15th amendments. Compromise of 1877: tilden and hayes presidential election of 1876 removed union troops from the south in exchange for the presidency (invalidated 1866 civil rights act) Concerned about affairs abroad but do not address issues at home. People using all religious texts to justify violence (both bible and quran) Collective oppression (addresses asians, african americans, native americans, lower class/poor white people, etc ) at the hand of american government officials: used chinese to build railroads and then blocked immigration. Viscous cycle of accumulation of wealth via exploitation of the poor and the minorities: wealth blinds people to the plights of others. Distracted by and fearful of international terrorism that domestic terrorism is neglected. Us government ironically fits own criteria for domestic terrorism. Growth of kkk to reclaim power over 4 million newly freed african americans and over.