MLK JR. extra credit

This article was interessting to read. It literally made me feel like they were talking to me. Everybody knows him by "I have a dream...," but like me, we can't go any farther and say what his dream was really about. Today people are quoting him in presidential debates and that's not right, those are his words and need to be remembered by him, me are voting for you not Martin Luther King JR. It also made me think about how he never really was liked and we put him on this pedestal like he is this great popular person but he was really looked down upon. I enjoyed reading this article, we really should remember that his speech was about segregation and not take parts of his speech away from that like the article says.

Was Reconstruction a "Splendid Failure"?

I think that Eric Foner makes a better argument only because he has facts to back him up and not just opinions and what could have happened like LaWanda Cox. Foner says that the Reconstruction was a "Splendid Failure" because it offered African Americans in the South a temporary vision of a free society. It gave African Americans freedoms that they never had and they could get involved in society if they wanted to and they received economic rights.
Even though Foner made a better argument because he had facts to back him up I still think that LaWanda Cox had a better argument to read. Because she didn't have facts it was interesting to see how she thinks things should have been so it kept you hooked more then just reading things that we know happened.
~The reconstruction was a "Splendid Failure" because even though it didn't turn out how we hoped it would, during the times that things were going smooth it was splendid. The country was back together and blacks had their rights and then things went downhill.

Is the Civil War importance over exaggerated???

Its hard to really say that the Civil War has been exaggerated by the historians because we weren't there to see what was going on. In a way I think that it was a little over exaggerated. They make it seem like this huge "life changing" war. Some historians say that the war was this huge war that had to happen or the USA was going to crumble apart and never be what people thought it was going to be. These historians seem to exaggerate the whole deal and made it seem a lot more important then it might have been. Then there are those historians who say that "hey those other historians have really over exaggerated this issue." I think that these historians got away from what was really important during the war and the facts. So I guess i would have to agree with the historians that believe the Civil War has been over exaggerated because even though it was a war that helped bring the USA back together it doesn't have to be flaunted and made into such a big deal as some historians have made it. Many other events just as important have happened but none of them have been expressed so "wowly" by these same historians.