. >> well, lydia maria child in the 1st woman to edit of political newspaper was the editor of the anti-slavery standard for sidney howard k take over that post. .. >> >> many were roused by that but even if not egalitarian as thinking that they tried to undo the civil war to abolish slavery and the rebels will not accept that. for a time they supported measures to protect the basic rights of the former slaves the civil rights act the 14th amendment giving blacks the right to vote with radical reconstruction for complicated reasons but then by the 1870's racism reasserts itself to black equality had in the north is withering that is the story of the of the destruction. >> host: why does that have been? but why buy this time to say enough already? >> guest: i wrote a 600 page book about this. but racism has a history it isn't constant all the time with the end of the civil war with 200,000 black soldiers in that convince many northerners. but by the 1870's people want normalcy. they don't want a return back to normal with severe economic depression of the sentiment pushing away from southern iss