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    1 year ago

    How do you think Jim Crow was established? With violence.

    It was not simply due to congressional reconstruction that programmatic land reform wasn’t attempted in the south. People were actively pursuing campaigns of violence during reconstruction.

    There was no alternative to violent resistance.

    There is no alternative to violent resistance.