They were given a pardon.
As a candidate, Carter himself had said he advocated "pardon" -- a term he preferred over "amnesty." He said, "Amnesty means that what you did was right. Pardon means that
what you did, whether it's right or wrong, you are forgiven
for it. And I do advocate a pardon for draft evaders. ... Now is the time to heal our country after the Vietnam war. ... I hope to bring about an end to the divisiveness that has occurred in our country as a result of the Vietnam war."
On his second day in office, President Carter in fact did pardon draft dodgers. This applied only to civilians who evaded the draft. It did not apply to active duty military personnel who went absent without leave (AWOL) or deserted their units during the war.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
The goal of the Southern "Redemption" was for southern whites to take the power back and establish their supremacy over African Americans in the southern states.
We are talking about a moment at the end of Reconstruction in America when the Union allowed a relatively easy transition for former Confederate states to do their own Reconstruction process. The "White Redemption" aimed at getting their political power back. The goal of the southern was to establish white supremacy in the south, limiting the rights of African Americans and supporting the legislation as the Jim Crow laws.
From 1870 to approximately 1910, rich white people from the south like the owners of the large plantations supported those laws and the creation of supremacists, violent, and extremists groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.
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