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[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/reconstruction-schools-and-education-during-reconstruction/ by PBS] | [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/reconstruction-schools-and-education-during-reconstruction/ by PBS] | ||
Eric Foner: Freedom had many meanings to people coming right out of slavery. But one of the things that it critically involved was access to education. Most of the Southern states, before the Civil War, made it illegal to teach a slave to read and write. Now, some African Americans did learn to read and write secretly. | Eric Foner: Freedom had many meanings to people coming right out of slavery. But one of the things that it critically involved was access to education. Most of the Southern states, before the Civil War, made it illegal to teach a slave to read and write. Now, some African Americans did learn to read and write secretly. | ||
=====Is Obama’s War in Afghanistan Just?===== | |||
[https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/is-obamas-war-in-afghanistan-just/ by Michael Walzer 3/12/09 DISSENT] | |||
WELL, IT was a just war in the beginning, and it is worth remembering why. It wasn’t because the Taliban regime was “harboring” al Qaeda, as President Obama said on Tuesday night. Lots of countries harbor terrorists, and we are not going to war (and should not) with all of them. Afghanistan was different: the Taliban and al Qaeda were full partners, and because of that partnership, al Qaeda enjoyed all the benefits of sovereignty—most important, a territorial base. A military attack aimed at eliminating that base, and its political basis, was therefore justified. | |||
