Reconstruction: America After the Civil War S01E03 · Part 2, Hour 1

Overview

An examination of the years 1877-1896, a transitional period that saw visions of a “New South” set the stage for the rise of Jim Crow and the undermining of Reconstruction’s legal and political legacy. While some African Americans attempted to migrate, the vast majority remained in the South, where sharecropping, convict leasing, disfranchisement, and lynchings drew a “color line”.

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1. 1 1. Part 1, Hour 12019-04-09 · 55mThe aftermath of the Civil War was bewildering, exhilarating...and terrifying. African Americans had played a crucial role in saving the Union and now, as the country grappled with
2. 2 2. Part 1, Hour 22019-04-09 · 55mPost-Civil War America was a new world. For African Americans living in the former Confederacy, Reconstruction was what historian W. E. B. Du Bois once described as their “brief mo
3. 3 3. Part 2, Hour 12019-04-16 · 55mAn examination of the years 1877-1896, a transitional period that saw visions of a “New South” set the stage for the rise of Jim Crow and the undermining of Reconstruction’s legal
4. 4 4. Part 2, Hour 22019-04-16 · 55mThe turn of the century is known as the ‘nadir’ of race relations, when white supremacy was ascendant and African Americans faced both physical and psychological oppression. Racist