Historians describe the creation of schools and focus on education — for both blacks and whites — in the South during Reconstruction. Eric Foner: Freedom had many meanings to people coming ...

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 ...

“This bill is about race, that’s all,” Rep. Ed Larvadain, D-Alexandria, said several minutes later about Chenevert’s House ...

She continued, “This isn’t new. It’s the same mechanism that was used to capture fugitive slaves and suppress Black resistance during Reconstruction.” In 1850, Congress passed a law that ...

While Reconstruction attempted to expand individual rights to black Southerners ... The government grew massive during the Civil War, and the post-war political dominance of Republicans ...

State Rep. Lori Saine chastised the main sponsors of a resolution honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day during a speech on the ...

The government under President Donald Trump is bending the arc of US history in a new direction, away from the civil rights ...

Trump’s anti-DEI push isn’t the first time efforts to diversify policing have faced a backlash. Black officers hired in the South during Reconstruction lost their jobs in the late 1800s when the ...