When I was a young man in the 1980s I spent an unusual amount of time reading scholarly works on the Spanish Civil War. One day I came across a graphic history of that conflict told through the eyes of working class syndicalist militants.
Alexandria and Manassas, Virginia, Harpers Ferry and Charles Town in West Virginia, Sharpsburg and Bladensburg, in Maryland, and the Sea Islands off of the Carolina Coast.
Tolson Church in Sharpsburg
Blacks were able to vote for the mayor in the late 1860s, but by 1871 there were moves to reduce the power of the African American community. By 1878, the Congress had taken away a popularly elected mayor and city council governing the District.
One party is introduced as the Republicans without much background. Their opposition really does not have any political background at all. There are two scenes in which President Andrew Johnson refuses to sign onto civil rights legislation, but no background on why or even how he got into his position. During a recent hospital stay, we heard nurses not sure whom the recently deceased Jimmy Carter was-“Wasn’t he a president?”-so I am not sure how many non-historians know who Johnson was.
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