African Americans took over the South during Reconstruction. The official Mississippi history textbook used in the ninth grade across the state in the 1960s flatly declared Reconstruction a period ...

Read more: Schools Are Failing to Teach Reconstruction, Report Says Foner, the author of Freedom’s Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction, estimates that about 2,000 ...

Black institutions, including the church, the schoolhouse, and the press, kept public vigil over promises made, broken, and, in some instances, renewed during the long march toward liberation.

'Black Codes' in the South-- A Hinderence to Blacks during the Reconstruction Era. Sherry Stone ... of their subjugation of Blacks with the enactment of “Black Codes,” initially in Mississippi.

A Mississippi State Trooper salutes the coffin of former State Representative and House Speaker Pro Temp Robert Clark, Jr., before the changing of the honor guard in the State Capitol rotunda ...

A brand-new interactive tour takes you through downtown Huntsville to showcase at least 16 buildings and other sites built by Black businesspeople and entrepreneurs during the Reconstruction Era ...

According to Barber, author of a 2016 book, The Third Reconstruction, Southerners dubbed their resistance the Redemption Movement -- "to redeem the South from sin, which was black and white ...

From 1860 to 1875, which was the era of Reconstruction, Black people were permitted to vote. More than a century later, whites did not want Blacks to know that they ever had the right to vote in ...

Mississippi has the highest percentage of Black residents in the country at nearly 39%. White Republicans have long had total control over state government due to an array of voter suppression ...

Black residents in a Mississippi town filed a lawsuit detailing allegations of local police systematically ‘terrorizing’ them. The federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by a civil rights organization ...