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From Title: Reconstruction: America After the Civil War - Episode 1
The Confederacy surrendered on April 9, 1865. Abraham Lincoln spoke of Reconstruction at the White House two days later, suggesting that freed blacks be allowed to vote. This anger...
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The 13th Amendment passed Congress in January 1865, but it had not been ratified by the states. Andrew Johnson was sworn in just hours after Lincoln’s death. He had grown up a poor...
Johnson declared that southern states had met his terms, paving the way for them to return to Congress. Thaddeus Stevens and other congressional Republicans were outraged at plans...
Racial tension grew in Memphis with the presence of a black regiment and Irish police force. White mobs hunted down black people, shooting and raping them; every black church and b...
From Title: Reconstruction: America After the Civil War - Episode 2
Newly freed blacks were optimistic during the Reconstruction era. The Fifteenth Amendment barred racial discrimination in voting, and more than 1,500 black politicians were elected...
For the first time, black men and white men served side by side in statehouses across the South. In South Carolina, where blacks made up nearly 60 percent of the population, voters...
To meet the demand for black teachers, governments, black churches, and missionary organizations established black colleges and universities. Fisk University in Nashville, Tennesse...
Black people could buy land, start businesses, and become economically independent. Former slave John Roy Lynch was appointed as a justice of the peace in Natchez, Mississippi in 1...
Racist propaganda helped southern oligarchs recruit poor whites to their cause and remain in power. The gains of blacks were viewed as threats to all white men. Robert E. Lee’s dea...
From Title: Reconstruction: America After the Civil War - Episode 3
When African-Americans learned they could not cross the color line, they turned inward to create a black world within a white one. Madison Park and other all-black communities cont...
Wells seized the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 as a platform for her activism. Wells and Frederick Douglass fought back after organizers refused to give them a space to speak on the...
Tuskegee Institute leader Booker T. Washington promoted the idea that an industrial education would translate into black property ownership and entrepreneurship. He gave one of his...
Renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the definitive history of the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild i...
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From Series: Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Explore the rise of Jim Crow and the undermining of Reconstruction’s legal and political legacy.
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Discover how post-Civil War America was a new world. Learn how African-Americans made political, social and economic progress in the face of violence.
White supremacist Dylann Roof murdered nine black people at a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina on June, 17, 2015. The roots of white terror against African Americans c...
The early days of freedom were a bewildering mixture of exhilaration and apprehension. Newly freed slaves placed ads in newspapers and wandered the countryside in an attempt to rec...
Legislators in Mississippi passed a set of oppressive laws that applied only to blacks in 1866, and other southern states followed. Blacks who did not sign labor contracts with whi...
Freedman Hiram Revels was elected to represent Mississippi in the United States Senate in 1870. He was soon joined in Congress by Joseph Rainey, Richard Cain, Blanche Bruce and sev...
Black Congressman Joseph Rainey demanded a Congressional response to Klan violence and intimidation; it came in the form of a series of enforcement acts and the deployment of feder...
Support for Reconstruction waned in the North and black politicians became targets of scorn, ridicule, and racist propaganda. Democrats were emboldened in the South. White vigilant...
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 passed, but a clause addressing education was stripped from the bill. In 1876, the Supreme Court made a ruling in United States v. Cruikshank that hurt...
There was an understanding in that blacks had all the rights they should expect. Rutherford B. Hayes ran against Samuel Tilden in the presidential election, and both candidates ple...
Organizing workers along class lines instead of racial ones was revolutionary, especially in the Jim Crow South. The Populist Party presented the largest third-party challenge in A...
Theories regarding the biological inferiority of black people were ubiquitous, from popular culture to academia. White supremacists policed the color line with vigilante violence.
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