insider.si.edu: The first Reconstruction black politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War Van Gosse
The first Reconstruction black politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War Van Gosse
At the end of Black Reconstruction in America, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote that sometimes the "truth of history" can be "contradicted and changed into any convenient fairy tale that the masters of men wish." ...
Reconstruction was, as one textbook puts it, a moment of “revolutionary possibility and violent backlash” (Locke & Wright, 2019). For roughly twelve years, the federal government, Black Americans, former Confederates, and Northern reformers fought over the answers.
The Advocate: Author Nicholas Patler's biography explores the life of America's first Black governor
“Pinchback: America’s First Black Governor” by Nicholas Patler, University Press of Mississippi, 226 pages. As late as the 1970s, Louisiana history textbooks excluded P.B.S. Pinchback’s name from the ...
Author Nicholas Patler's biography explores the life of America's first Black governor
Black Enterprise: Minding Our Own Business: How W.E.B. Du Bois Reframed Black American Identity Through The Diaspora
Minding Our Own Business: How W.E.B. Du Bois Reframed Black American Identity Through The Diaspora
insider.si.edu: Black Reconstruction -- A Conversation Among Eric Foner, Henry Louis Gates & Kevin Young
Black Reconstruction -- A Conversation Among Eric Foner, Henry Louis Gates & Kevin Young
Reconstruction, the period (1865–77) after the American Civil War during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded.