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Dark sky rising : Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr2019
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"This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring account of emancipation, the struggle for citizenship and national reunion, and the advent of racial segregation, the renowned Harvard scholar delivers a book that is illuminating and timely. Real-life accounts drive the narrative, spanning the half century between the Civil War and Birth of a Nation. Here, you will come face-to-face with the people and events of Reconstruction's noble democratic experiment, its tragic undermining, and the drawing of a new "color line" in the long Jim Crow era that followed. In introducing young readers to them, and to the resiliency of the African American people at times of progress and betrayal, Professor Gates shares a history that remains vitally relevant today."--Provided by publisher.
Main title:
Dark sky rising : Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow / Henry Louis Gates, Jr with Tonya Bolden.
Author:
Imprint:
New York : Scholastic Focus, [2019]
Collation:
pages cm
Audience:
Reading grade level: Grades 4-6.Interest age level: Ages 9-12.
Contents:
Let freedom ring!Men of color to arms!Fraught with great difficultyRestoredThe ballot with which to save ourselvesGo on with your oppressionsWhite reign of terrorTo the storm, to the whirlwindMoral weakness in high placesMighty current.
ISBN:
9781338262049 (hardcover alk paper)
Dewey class:
973.0496073323
LC class:
E185.2
Language:
English
BRN:
3366411
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