This lecture for HIST 2013 covers the successes and failures of Reconstruction 1865-1877. It describes the gains made by black families, communities, institutions, and politicians in the face of horrific white supremacist terrorist violence. It details the legislative efforts by Radical Republicans to protect black freedoms and the right to vote. It recounts the death of Reconstruction but posits that the gains made by black Americans were revolutionary in the global context of emancipation.

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