Reconstruction's broken promises and Black progress
Postwar South lay ruined with four million freed slaves. The Freedman's Bureau aided food, schools, hospitals, and resettlement while radicals pushed civil rights bills. Land reform failed, sharecropping emerged, yet Black political gains grew 1866 to 1876, before renewed oppression.
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South
Freedman’s Bureau
Thaddeus Stevens
Pennsylvania
House
Charles Sumner
Massachusetts
Senate
Johnson
Stevens
TV Networks Tackle Race Issues Across Major Lines
The Associated Press reports networks respond to civil rights findings by broadcasting series on race, culture, and urban problems. ABC aims six one hour specials on white racism running June to July. CBS airs Black America six and a half hours from July to August. NBC plans an extended look at urban crisis education housing pollution and employment with multiple episodes. Floyd McKissick welcomes network action noting it should aid progress.
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Jerry Buck
Associated Press
NEW York
National Advisory Commission On Civil Rights
News
National Education Television Network
ABC
America
ABC News
Elmer Wlower
CBS
NBC
United States
Fred Freed
Floyd McKissick
Congress of Racial Equality
Bus Crossing Alert System Proposed by Golden Engineer
Don ald Coakley of Golden outlines a simple safety system with a low powered radio transmitter on locomotives and a buzzer receiver in school buses to warn drivers with a flashing light and audible alert as trains approach crossings. A Kentucky bridge survey finds about 150 state maintained bridges needing repair though no large river spans are in this category.
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Golden
Colo
Donald Coakley
Coakley
Frankfort
Kentucky
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