Reconstruction began when the first US soldiers arrived in slaveholding territory, and enslaved people escaped from plantations and farms, some of them fleeing into free states, and others trying to find …

Since the early 1960s, a profound alteration of the place of blacks within American society, newly uncovered evidence, and changing definitions of history itself have combined to transform our …

EJI presents this report to provide context and analysis of what happened during this tragic period of American history and to descibe its implications for the issues we face today.

Twilight years between Reconstruction laws and Jim Crow laws (laws and statutes that treated Blacks different from Whites, effectively mandating segregation). Blacks can still vote, hold office and have …

This lesson is meant to follow classroom instruction about Reconstruction. Students will be able to... Organize events through chronologies to suggest and evaluate cause-and-effect relationships …

Nevertheless, our Reconstruction founders made an important start. RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS Finally, let’s briefly review the power of each of the Reconstruction Amendments. …

Chapter 15 “What is Freedom?”: Reconstruction, 1865-1877. This chapter discusses the challenges faced by northerners and southerners after the Civil War. The federal government debated various …