Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
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Episodes
- S1 E1 - Episode 1
April 8, 201955minExperience the aftermath of the Civil War. African Americans who had played a crucial role in the war now grapple with the terms and implications of Reconstruction and their hard-won freedom.Subscribe for $1.99/month for 2 month(s) and $4.99/month thereafter, or buy - S1 E2 - Episode 2
April 8, 201955minDiscover how post-Civil War America was a new world. For African Americans, support for their social, economic and political gains did not last. The 1876 presidential election deals Reconstruction a blow as the forces of white supremacy ascend.Subscribe for $1.99/month for 2 month(s) and $4.99/month thereafter, or buy - S1 E3 - Episode 3
April 15, 201955minExplore 1877-1896, with the rise of Jim Crow and the undermining of Reconstruction’s legal and political legacy. Southern sharecropping, convict leasing, disfranchisement and lynchings drew a “color line” limiting opportunities and destroying lives.Subscribe for $1.99/month for 2 month(s) and $4.99/month thereafter, or buy - S1 E4 - Episode 4
April 15, 201955minLearn how as America entered the 1900s, Southern propaganda manipulated the story of the Civil War and racist imagery saturated popular culture. African Americans fought back using artistic expression to put forward a “New Negro” for a new century.Subscribe for $1.99/month for 2 month(s) and $4.99/month thereafter, or buy
