Showing results for "Reconstruction" in Social Sciences

A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality - in the face of murderous violence - in the years after the Civil War. By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and 13 years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. That same year, Hiram Revels and Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African-American U.S. senator and congressman respectively.

After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, a former slave from Mississippi, embarked on an extraordinary political journey starting in 1869 as Justice of the Peace and later becoming a Mississippi State Representative. At just 26 years old, he was elected to the US Congress in 1873, where he actively championed several important bills, including a pivotal debate supporting the Civil Rights Act of 1875, aimed at ending discrimination in public accommodations. In 1884, Lynch made history as the first African American nominated for the position of Temporary Chairman of the Republican National ...

One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America’s Third Reconstruction In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The...

A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide. Over the summer of 2013, the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II led more than a hundred thousand people at rallies across North Carolina to protest restrictions to...

NOS RECONSTRUCTIONS c'est quoi ? Personnelles, collectives, urbaines, familiales, écologiques, sociales, combatives, artistiques,amoureuses... Comment (se) reconstruit-on ?Et d’abord: que faut-il reconstruire ?? Comment ça va se passer ? Une soirée ouverte à toutes et tous dans un lieu incroyable du Havre: Port Center. Une occasion de parler, discuter, débattre, rêver ensemble de nos reconstructions, passées et à venir.

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Enfant, Julie a subi des agressions sexuelles de la part de son voisin. Un père de famille. Un ami de ses parents. Elle n’en a pas parlé avant ses 16 ans. Un soir de vacances, elle s’est confiée pour la première fois à sa meilleure amie : Nina Pareja. Pendant longtemps, elles n’ont pas su quoi faire de ces souvenirs, de ce passé, de cette violence. Mais en 2019, à 25 ans, Julie a décidé qu'elle voulait que cela change. Que l’on fasse quelque chose de son récit intime. Nina, devenue journaliste, lui a proposé de l'aider à raconter son histoire. Pendant trois ans, elles ont ...

The War after the War is a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American Civil War. This Southern Civil War was distinct from the American Civil War and fought between southerners for control of state governments. In the South, African American and white unionists formed a successful biracial coalition that elected state and local officials. White supremacist insurrectionaries battled with these coalitions and won the Southern Civil War, successfully overthrowing democratically elected governments.

A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. The abolition of...

On Easter Sunday, 1873, in the tiny hamlet of Colfax, Louisiana, more than 150 members of an all-black Republican militia, defending the town's courthouse, were slain by an armed force of rampaging white supremacists. The most deadly incident of racial violence of the Reconstruction era, the Colfax Massacre unleashed a reign of terror that all but extinguished the campaign for racial equality.

Fight back against misinformation and ignorance as New York Times bestselling author Keith Boykin debunks 25 of the most common claims used to refute America’s racist past and present. The most toxic racial arguments share one of five traits. They try to erase Black history, prioritize white...

Highlighting forgotten Black and White civil rights pioneers and weaving in the story of the author's own great-grandfather's crimes as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Freedom on Trial tells a gripping story of a moment pregnant with promise when race relations in the United States might have taken a dramatically different turn.

Pas si Forte : Inceste, déni, révélation, suicide, deuil reconstruction. Où comment l’inceste m’a volé plus que ma virginité. Il a bouleversé ma vie Être forte n’a pas été une option mais a été ma bouée inconsciente d’une bonne partie de ma vie et j’en ai payé le prix fort. Quelle illusion cette soit disant force. Elle m’a tenu, porté mais elle a tellement faussé la donne vis-à-vis ce que l’on attendait ou espérait de moi. Je lui en ai voulu, aussi étrange que cela puisse paraître car on on excuse pas quelqu’un de fort. Ne pas flancher, garder la ...