Description: Spanning eighteen of the most formative years in African-American history, Reconstruction marked an end to slavery and a beginning to the enfranchisement of African Americans. Full citizenship, voting rights, land ownership, employment opportunities, and political participation were only some of the significant gains enjoyed, in theory, by African Americans during this period. Although these rights were granted by amendments to the U.S. Constitution and federal legislation they were not, in practice, universally protected at local levels. This collection covers many topical categories such as Reconstruction by state; works by African- American writers on race, slavery, and civil rights; the portrayal of African Americans in the Arts; early histories of the Civil War and slavery; and others. This archive contains varied perspectives on subjects including but not limited to: *African-American Activism *Causes of the Civil War *Political Restoration of the South *Legal Status of African Americans *Congress and Radical Reconstruction *Discrimination and Segregation *Theorizing the Origins of Race *Minstrel Show Music, Scripts, etc. *Education in the South *African-Americans in Office *Back-to-Africa Movement *Suffrage/Right to Vote *Lynchings and Massacres

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