itive benefits. The new radical state constitutions were in harmony with the progressive and democratic attendants of the day, modeled as they were on northern constitutions of the era and have substancianly survived through the present. Through them the southerners learned in theory at least, of equality of all men before the law, the right of all children to a public education, the priviledges of all to enjoy civil and social liberties.The radical governments selected under these constitutions provided free public schools for blacks and whites with compulsory attendance, expanded state facilities for the deaf, dumb, and insane, provided poorr relief to people of both races, established state normal schools (teaching colleges for blacks), family state hospitals, and rebuilt or repaired roads and building and bridges. With the overthrow of radical reconstruction, the south trampled on many features of the democratic concept and cut back on social services such as schools. But the democratic ideal had been imbedded in the federal constitution through the 13 (abolished slavery), 14 (minumun guaratntees as a precondition to their readmission back into the Union), and 15th amendmentm (black suffrage). These amendments could have been passed any other time and in the second reconstruction (brown versus the board of …). Taylot, “What if anything reconstrution accomplised in Louisiana? The state did get a better constution but a subseqent changes made the law a joke.” Reconstrution in Lousianan brought temporary change. But it gave to another generation the opportunity to accomplish what their ancestors had failed to do during reconstrution. ” 7. Famous Scalawags:Franklin Moses (SC)Christopher Columbus Bowen (SC)Joshua Hill (Ga)John Pool (NC)Charles Hays (Ala)James Lusk Alcorn (Miss)Andrew Jackson Hamilton (Tx)Elisha Pease (Tx)Edmund Jackson Davis (Tx)...
