On today's episode, Moxy gives the gang the run down on how the continuation of racist policy undoes the little progress made for the enslaved populations shortly after the Civil War of America and how without addressing the shortcomings that were manifested by the Government of that era and societal opinion, the oppressive nature simply changed to more cryptic ideology and their silent agreements that lead to curation of Sundown Towns. If a slave were to become a freed man, the tyranny they faced was that of bureaucratic exclusion, and negligence from a system and a people that purely relied on their exploitable existence up to this point.
Our Sources for today are as follows;
Sundown Towns
Emancipation
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/special-field-orders-no-15/
https://newrepublic.com/article/161496/slavery-reparations-joe-biden-bruce-bartlett
https://thecounter.org/usda-black-farmers-discrimination-tom-vilsack-reparations-civil-rights/
Independent- How the U.S. Gov. Destroyed Black Neighborhoods
Slavery by Another Name is Sharecropping
Sanford Food History- Sharecropping
The Atlantic Article on The Freedman's Bureau
Freedman's Bureau
USDA Reports