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This 3 page paper discusses Stephen Budiansky’s book The Bloody Shirt, about the violent terrorist attacks on blacks by white Southerners during the Reconstruction period. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Budiansky: The Bloody Shirt
Inc. by K. Von Huben 7/2010 Please Introduction In the ten years following the end of the American Civil War, more
than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the "genteel South" that has arisen since the end of the conflict,
this fact has been successfully buried. In his book The Bloody Shirt, Stephen Budiansky argues that the murderous treatment of blacks during Reconstruction through the end of the 19th century-and
to some extent today-was not the result of a few enraged and misguided individuals, but a well-orchestrated and systematic campaign to exterminate African Americans; an effort similar to that made
by the Nazis against European Jewry. This paper evaluates Budianskys argument and agrees that the activities of Southerners during Reconstruction are best described as terrorist acts. Discussion Stephen Budiansky has
written twelve books on subjects ranging from military history to science and the natural world; in addition he was foreign editor at U.S. News & World Report as well as
contributing articles on "topics as far ranging as Fats Wallers pipe organ performances, foxhunting, weird dog behavior, and sleazy university marketing tactics" for publications such as The Wall Street Journal
and The New York Times, among others.1 Budiansky was graduated from Yale University in 1978; he obtained his Masters in applied mathematics from Harvard in 1979.2 During 1985-86 Budiansky was
a "Congressional Fellow at the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, where he co-authored a classified study on the future role of smart weapons technology in warfare.3 He is described
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