The Prevalence of Myth over History

"Today (Nov. 9) I heard a black historian on NPR say that the 'civil war' was fought in order to establish a framework for human rights. He also said that black civil rights achieved by the war were overturned by the rollback of Reconstruction, put back in place by the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and was now being overturned again by Trump’s response to the caravan from Honduras."