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 ...

Black political power and economic freedom require more than representation — they demand a strong infrastructure to turn ...

This American period of renewed and open hostility to Black Americans will long outlive ... to 12 years of Reconstruction Era progress (1865-1877) to 77 years of Jim Crow and racial violence ...

Could Black Americans find themselves pushed back to a time reminiscent of the 1870’s Post-Reconstruction era, where legally they had no rights whites had to respect? The threat is real ...

Could Black Americans find themselves pushed back to a time reminiscent of the 1870’s Post-Reconstruction era, where legally they had no rights whites had to respect? The threat is real ...

History has repeatedly shown that moments of major social and political progress are often followed by backlash. For example, ...

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.

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 ...