Reconstruction’s black Congressmen did not see themselves simply ... money in the Freedman’s Savings Bank, which failed during the Panic of 1873. Like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in our own ...

Elliott, a Black Republican congressman from South Carolina ... schools is because the backlash to the Black officeholders during Reconstruction contradicts the narrative that America has improved ...

With the votes of African American Congressmen Joseph Rainey ... is the apex of black representation during Reconstruction; seven House Members and one Senator, that's the high point?" ...

Hiram Rhodes Revels was born free and served as a chaplain to black regiments during the Civil War ... of any of the pioneering black Congressmen of Reconstruction. Foner said, "They were no ...

During the course of Reconstruction ... The period produced a number of notable black leaders. One well-known congressman, Robert Brown Elliott, was a brilliant political organizer.

All of the Reconstruction-era black Congressmen were members of the Republican ... nevertheless for reactivation, most crucially during the civil rights revolution of the mid-20th century.

Social equality is thrown up as an argument against Reconstruction ... And of course the black codes, which were established during the summer of 1865 and into the fall of 1866 -- allowed to ...

Over 800 corten-steel monuments, one for each county in the United States where a racial terror lynching took place, on display at the National Memorial For Peace And ...

During the early days of Reconstruction ... Ransier — one of the first Black congressmen from South Carolina — became the state’s first elected Black lieutenant governor.

RASCOE: Robert Smalls, the Black congressman, during reconstruction - I knew a little of his story, but I didn't realize how he was able to persist, even as the rights that were given to Black ...