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African Americans Civil rights History 19th century African Americans Employment History 19th century African Americans History 1863-1877 African Americans Politics and government 19th century African Americans Social conditions History 19th century Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Southern States History 1865-1877 United States United States Politics and government 1865-1877 White supremacy movements United StatesDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Summary: A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War's aftermath and the legacy of racism in America. Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois's now classic Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction--and of American democracy itself. One of the towering African American thinkers and activists of the twentieth century,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.81 DU BDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 DUBWilliams, Kidada E.
Summary: "The story of Reconstruction is often told from the perspective of the politicians, generals, and journalists whose accounts claim an outsized place in collective memory. But this pivotal era looked very different to African Americans in the South transitioning from bondage to freedom after 1865. They were besieged by a campaign of white supremacist violence that persisted through the 1880s and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 WILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 WILGates, Henry Louis Jr.
Summary: Explores the historical period following the American Civil War known as Reconstruction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2019