Recent Dr. Bryant column: Black youth are thriving in Savannah ... and integrated transportation starting in 1872. The Reconstruction Era did not produce 40 acres (nor the mule that was added ...

If popular culture helps Americans understand history, there’s good news and bad news for the period known as Reconstruction. The good news: The era’s story is told in two of the biggest ...

Joseph will discuss “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice inthe Twenty-First Century” with University of Texas professor and KUT Austin’s “Black AustinMatters ...

"I'm still in shock," Jones told the American-Statesman ... The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era," examines the challenges Black people in Boston faced during the Civil ...

The Birth of a Nation (1915), which portrayed Reconstruction-era Black legislators as “comically” idiotic, necessitating the violent restoration of white rule. These arguments frequently draw ...

The post-Civil War Reconstruction era marked a period of massive social, political, economic, and cultural advancements for Black Americans. Between 1865 and 1877, formerly enslaved people gained ...

Looking at the Post Reconstruction of the mid 1800’s , we see a disturbing pattern of reactionary forces that drastically pushed Black Americans into an era of terror, segregation, and severe ...

Fisk was just a few years old then - one of the institutions founded in the South to educate Black people after ... the unfinished legacy of the Reconstruction Era. Vann Newkirk is a senior ...

A generation ago, historian C. Vann Woodward in his groundbreaking book, “The Strange Career of Jim Crow,” described Reconstruction by Black and white Southerners lasting into the 1890s.

Reading it amidst our era ... backlash against “Black Lives Matter” and police reform, it is difficult to avoid the force of Du Bois’ insight: Like with the demise of Reconstruction ...