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General William Westmoreland was in Washington, D.C. during the 1968 riots following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination; he noted that D.C. “looked worse than Saigon did at the height of the Tet Offensive.”
Clay Risen, A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009), 162.
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In addition to outlawing slavery, Vermont’s constitution was ahead of the 13 original states by excluding a property requirement to vote and by mandating primary schools in every township.
Christopher S. Wren, Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen’s Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018), 91. The total amount of money spent on public schools increased from $70,000,000 in 1871 to $200,000,000 at the turn of the century.
Fon W. Boardman, Jr., America and the Gilded Age: 1876 – 1900 (New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1972), 116. |
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