Awesome. I hope you setup a dining room for him/her.
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Bakari Sellers didn’t come out of nowhere — he’s the son of Cleveland Sellers, a SNCC legend who survived the Orangeburg Massacre. That’s why the dissonance hits so hard. The father walked with Stokely; the son walks with the establishment. #HistoryMatters #KnowTheLineage
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As Levine notes (The Failed Promise, Ch. 5–6), Black activists and Congress were already pressing for birthright citizenship, equal protection, and suffrage throughout 1865–early 1866 — the political architecture of the Fourteenth Amendment was underway before the midterms.
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Correction:
(See Levine, The Failed Promise, Part Two — especially chapters 5 and 6 — for the early 1866 political battles that predate the midterm election.)
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The 1866 wave helped secure its viability and ratification, but the Amendment’s creation predates that moment.
Both elements matter, especially for understanding how Congress — alongside Black activists like Frederick Douglass and freedpeople — built Reconstruction’s constitutional architecture.
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My point is strictly chronological: the Fourteenth Amendment was drafted between January and April 1866 and passed Congress in June — several months before the election. (See Levine, The Failed Promise, ch. 3, esp. pp. 112–120.)
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Thank you for responding. I appreciate the broader political framing — Johnson’s campaign against the Amendment certainly shaped the climate of 1866, and the midterm results strengthened Congress’s ability to enforce what followed.
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Now I'm going to repopen Robert S. Levine’s The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson in order to understand the political atmosphere around 1866.
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Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message.
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