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Throughout history, the Black voice has never been silent.
Although Reconstruction was short-lived, Foner, the author of Reconstruction, America's Unfinished Revolution, writes that it transformed life for Southern blacks.
Schools drew white rancor during Reconstruction. Black cites one scholar who found evidence of 631 attacks on Black schools during the period. There was also resistance to legislation and policy.
Texts from Mayor Brandon Johnson paint a picture of a freshman executive entrenching further into his identity as a Black mayor.
Reconstruction on Black Lives Matter Plaza began on Monday, causing temporary closures around some areas near the White House.
Black Codes, the other side of the unprecedented opportunities made available to Blacks during the Reconstruction Era, opened the door to sharecropping, tenant farming and other systemic ways to ...
After 300 years of enslavement in America, many African Americans felt their first taste of freedom during the Reconstruction Era. The period began with the end of the Civil War in 1865 when ...
In recognition of Black History Month, the Charleston Police Department (CPD) is honoring its first four Black officers.
The federal government abandoned Reconstruction in 1877, but Black people didn’t give up on the moment’s promise.
David Wilkins on Reconstruction, Reparation and Black Excellence “Some people don’t want that history to be taught. It challenges the myth they like to maintain.” By Heather Dunhill April 10 ...