The 1960s civil rights era structurally recapitulated the earlier Reconstruction period

Evidence

The enactment of “moderate” civil rights reforms, themselves painstakingly negotiated (Carmines and Stinson 1989; Lieberman 1998), and the Warren Court’s piecemeal expansion of black citizenship rights as well (Kluger 2004 ) were both reiterations of that earlier period of reform. In the late 1860s, there had been conflicts between the vision, policies, and practices of “Presidential” Reconstruction and that of “Congressional” Reconstruction; these paralleled the debates, squabbles, and contradictory moves underway within the racial state during the 1960s. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 180

Categorization

• XREF: Direct corroborating anchor for the vault’s existing racial-formation/CRT claims about the ‘racial state’ and periodization of reform eras. — connects to: Civil rights gains were needed because prior reconstructions failed to sustain equality — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1280; Post-civil-rights ‘progress’ coincided with the war on drugs and mass incarceration — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1241; The civil-rights era raised ethnic statuses without reordering the ethnic hierarchy
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Civil rights gains were needed because prior reconstructions failed to sustain equality — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1280; Post-civil-rights ‘progress’ coincided with the war on drugs and mass incarceration — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1241; The civil-rights era raised ethnic statuses without reordering the ethnic hierarchy