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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 Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 WILDu 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 DUBSummary: "An incisive and illuminating analysis of the enduring legacy of the post-Civil War period known as Reconstruction--a comprehensive story of Black Americans' struggle for human rights and dignity and the failure of the nation to fulfill its promises of freedom, citizenship, and justice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021