What Was Reconstruction? Smith Sherri L.
What Was Reconstruction? Smith Sherri L. In the same style as the New York Times Best-Selling Who Was? focuses on compelling historical events, great battles, protests, and discoveries.Learn about a…
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What Was Reconstruction? Smith Sherri L.
In the same style as the New York Times Best-Selling Who Was? focuses on compelling historical events, great battles, protests, and discoveries.Learn about a pivotal time in American history and its momentous effects on civil rights in America in this enlightening title about Reconstruction.Reconstruction -- the period after the Civil War -- was meant to give newly freed Black people the same rights as white people. series, What Was?
But this time of hope didn't last long and instead, a deeply segregated United States continued on for another hundred years. And indeed there were monumental changes once slavery ended -- thriving new Black communities, the first Black members in Congress, and a new sense of dignity for many Black Americans. Find out what went wrong in this fascinating overview of a troubled