The End of the Second Reconstruction Johnson Hardback Polity Press 9781509538331

The End of the Second ReconstructionAuthor(s): Richard Johnson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509538331, 978-1509538331\nSynopsis\nDemocracy in the United States is under threat. The Trump administrations attack on the legacy of the civil rights movement is undermining Americas claims to be a multi-racial democracy. This moment of peril has worrying parallels with a previous era of American history. The gains of the Reconstruction era after the civil war, which saw African Americans given full democratic rights, were totally reversed within a generation. There is a serious risk that the advances of the civil rights era the Second Reconstruction will go the same way unless we learn from the past and appreciate that American democracy has never been a story of linear progress. Skilfully analysing the similarities and the differences between the 1870s and the 2010s, Johnson outlines a political strategy for.