Ted Tunnell: The second Reconstruction is what historians call the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the time in which finally black people are truly emancipated. They're only half ...

In A Red Record, civil rights pioneer Ida B ... their own people and identity.” In the post-Reconstruction years, the effort to suppress the Black vote (or what some termed “Africanization ...

Through their collective achievements, these extraordinary women created lasting foundations for social justice, equality, ...

As America grapples with shifting values and increasing chaos, we face an unsettling question: Could Black Americans find ...

Jim Crow laws denied Black people rights by enforcing segregation and ... The years immediately after the war were known as the Reconstruction era. The Government changed the Constitution, so ...

Mississippi’s first Black lawmaker of the 20th century died Tuesday. Robert G. Clark's son and successor, state Rep.

As America grapples with shifting values and increasing chaos, we face an unsettling question: Could Black Americans find themselves pushed back to a time reminiscent of the 1870’s Post-Reconstruction ...

A man who fought for justice, public education and civil rights in post-Civil ... honoring John Robinson, a Black politician, businessman and Reconstruction-era leader who helped shape Virginia ...

The Reconstruction era and the period of economic growth ... While Reconstruction attempted to expand individual rights to black Southerners, Native Americans were treated quite differently.