another example of a figure from the book that is transformed as a black nationalist martin delaney who had been ready to abandon the united states and create a project to take african-americans to make a new nation in west africa. during this time he was among those who started a rally around the flag, he served in military, served in the reconstruction government after that he had backed john brown's raid before that so he been willing to back and armed coup. so this three in the reconstruction it was really an unprecedented opportunity for social reengineering, but it ended really tragically and really violently, especially for african-americans and the south and for workers in the north and out west. the figures that i follow had accomplished so much that really had seemed impossible, and everyone, most people in america thought was impossible and crazy. but at the same time by the end of this time we do see a breakdown of the values are rethinking at some of the fundamental strategies and also sadly the splintering of a lot of the coalition relationships between movements that it r