Reconstruction

The Harmfulness of Black Codes in the State of Alabama

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” When the Civil War

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” Since the age of

Around 1920, twenty-four-year-old E. Hooper left her rural hometown of Chester, South Carolina for the big city where she could

The News Orleans daily newspaper the Times-Picayune, since its founding on January 25, 1837, and throughout 1914, when it merged

Reconstruction politics shares a political lineage with the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Both periods sought to fulfill the nation’s mandate