The successes of the Freedman’s Bureau, initiated by Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and first administered under Oliver Howard’s War Department, are all the more remarkable considering the intense popular and political opposition to the agency. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Under Lincoln’s successor, impeached Southern Democrat Andrew Johnson, the Bureau at times became a hostile entity to the […]
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What everyone should know about Reconstruction 150 years after the 15th Amendment’s ratification | The Conversation
I’ll never forget a student’s response when I asked during a middle school social studies class what they knew about black history: “Martin Luther King freed the slaves.” [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929, more than six decades after the time of enslavement. To me, this comment underscored how closely Americans […]
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The Lost Promise of Reconstruction | The New York Times
Can we reanimate the dream of freedom that Congress tried to enact in the wake of the Civil War?
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The American social revolution after slavery: Incredible photographs from 1900 Paris exhibition showed the world that African Americans were now musicians, lawyers and scientists | Daily Mail
Incredible photos from the turn of the 20th century were included in a bold and spectacular Parisian exhibit designed to promote racial equality in the wake of the American Civil War. He immediately turned to Librarian Daniel Murray and his former university classmate and prominent intellectual activist W.E.B. Du Bois to help curate his much […]
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New Exhibit Tackles Jim Crow Repression and Resistance | Colorlines
Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow is the first of several upcoming New-York Historical Society exhibits dedicated to Black culture and history.
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Proof That Black Politicians Helped Freedpeople During Reconstruction | Slate
A new economic analysis shows that black officeholders raised literacy rates, among other boons, for the newly freed.
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How About Erecting Monuments to the Heroes of Reconstruction? | The American Prospect
Americans should build this pivotal post–Civil War era into the new politics of historical memory.
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How black grassroots politics led to the 14th Amendment and black citizenship | The Conversation
As the nation seeks to understand the recent violence, and as the Black Lives Matter Movement claims the mantle of black leadership, now is an important time to remember an earlier period of race-based violence and civil rights struggles.
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