The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic Quotes

“Sumner’s bill effectively outlawed Jim Crow before it was instituted, and anticipated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that would finally end Jim Crow.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“of churches and cemeteries that appeared in earlier versions.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“Nor did it include the provisions for the desegregation”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“It guaranteed “full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusements.” But it did not include Sumner’s provision for school desegregation, a cause dear to his heart ever since he had fought for it in Massachusetts before the war.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“The Civil Rights Act of 1875 passed a little less than a year after Sumner’s death, on March 1 after Grant signed it,”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“Waving the bloody shirt” became a part of the conservative critique of Reconstruction, as though talking about horrific crimes was in some way oppressive to those who had committed them.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“Elliot responded by saying that “The constitution of a free government ought always to be construed in favor of human rights,”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“Reconstruction, Sumner’s demise came at its unwinding.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“1874. Momentum in its favor picked up after his death from a heart attack on March 11 of that year; his last words, whispered to Douglass and Representative George Frisbie Hoar of Massachusetts, as he lay in his sick bed, were to not let his Civil Rights bill fail in Congress.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“Sumner”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“the Senate passed a severely hollowed-out version of the Civil Rights bill in his absence in 1872 (it failed in the House), Sumner castigated Republicans for their backsliding.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“Radical and “stalwart” Republicans—those still committed to Reconstruction—in Congress tried to check the campaign of terror unfolding across the South.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“1874, terrorism also curbed black voting in Alabama.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“Even though Republican political culture was “integrated” in the South, factionalism within the party still provided conservatives with an opening.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“Four years later, Congress passed a law that put DC under federal control. To this day, DC statehood remains an unfulfilled promise of Reconstruction.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“Reconstruction ended in Washington that year when”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“1874,”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“The political turmoil in Louisiana continued until the presidential elections of 1876, when disputed election results led to the overthrow of Reconstruction.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“The 1872 elections resulted in competing state governments in Louisiana and two presidential electoral slates from the state.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“as terrorism surged in the state, federal troop levels dropped precipitously, from around two thousand in 1868 to just over four hundred in 1872.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“period between the so-called Mississippi Plan of 1875 and the overthrow of the last Reconstruction state governments in Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina after the presidential elections of 1876, was the crucible moment.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“Grant’s reelection in 1872 should have signaled, as most African Americans and radicals hoped, that the federal government’s commitment to Reconstruction would remain in place, or at least would not collapse. Yet”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“Abolitionists and antislavery Republicans helped shape the course of wartime emancipation.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“Born in the year Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868, and dying during the March on Washington in 1963, DuBois, more than any other black leader, personified the ongoing African American struggle for freedom and equality.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“The bureaucratic and institutional structures of the government allow not only for systemic administrative control, but also for colonized people to use it for their own ends.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“the transformation of the Republican Party from the party of antislavery to the party of big business.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“ideological division between intersectional abolitionist feminism and feminism “pure and simple.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“The staunchest opponents of women’s suffrage in Congress were conservative, states’ rights, racist Democrats.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“As Stanton put it, she could not accept “Patrick and Sambo and Hans and Yung Tung” making laws for her, an educated daughter of the republic.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

“Stanton and Anthony opposed the Fifteenth Amendment, using increasingly elitist arguments to oppose giving black and immigrant men the right to vote before women.”
― Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920