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1) Slavery and Reconstruction: the struggle for Black Civil Rights

Author

Smith, Elliott

Series

American Slavery and the Fight for Freedom

Pub. Date

[2022]

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"With the freeing of four million enslaved people after the Civil War, the Reconstruction period brought new victories and challenges in the fight for Black rights. Learn more about this crucial period in US history"--

2) Redemption: the last battle of the Civil War

Author

Lemann, Nicholas

Pub. Date

[2006]

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A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. Journalist Lemann describes an insurgency that changed the course of American history: from 1873 to 1877 white Southern Democrats waged a campaign of political terrorism to create chaos and keep blacks from voting out of fear for their lives and livelihoods,...

3) Papa's mark

Author

Battle-Lavert, Gwendolyn

Pub. Date

2023.

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Juneteenth - Children's

4) Reconstruction

Author

Uschan, Michael V

Series

Lucent library of Black history

Pub. Date

c2008

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A brief history of the struggles of Reconstruction.

5) The Rise of the Jim Crow Era

Series

African American experience: from slavery to the presidency
African American experience from slavery to the presidency

Pub. Date

2016.

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"Starting in the 1870s, Jim Crow laws began to appear across the South. Their aim was to enforce racial segregation, consolidating power in the hands of whites. This book examines the impact of these laws and other challenges that African Americans faced between the Reconstruction period and World War I. Topics discussed include the rise of groups promoting white supremacy, laws designed to quash African-American voting, Plessey v. Ferguson, the success...