reconstruction (1865-1876)

In the years following the Civil War, a new battle began. Newly freed African American men had gained their voting rights and would soon have a chance to transform Southern politics. Former Confederates and other white supremacists mobilized to stop them. Thus, the KKK was born. After the first political assassination carried out by the Klan, Washington power brokers looked for help in breaking the growing movement. They found it in Hiram C. Whitley. He became head of the Secret Service, which had previously focused on catching counterfeiters and was at the time the government?s only intelligence organization. Whitley and his agents led the covert war against the nascent KKK and were the first to use undercover work in mass crime?what we now call terrorism?investigations. Like many spymasters before and since, Whitley also had a dark side. His penchant for skulduggery and dirty tricks ultimately led to his involvement in a conspiracy that would bring an end to his career and transform the Secret Service.

Explores the post-Civil-War-era experiences and struggles of African Americans to achieve the freedom that the Emancipation Proclamation declared was theirs, confronting first the post-war use of media--which in that time became more prominent with technology like chromolithography--to disseminate racist propaganda, and chronicling the history of African American struggles throughout the Reconstruction Era, the Jim Crow segregation era, and up to the civil rights movement.

"On Easter Sunday of 1873, just eight years after the Civil War ended, a band of white supremacists marched into Grant Parish, Louisiana, and massacred over one hundred unarmed African Americans. The court case that followed would reach the highest court in the land. Yet, following one of the most ghastly and barbaric incidents of mass murder in American history, not a single person was convicted. The opinion issued by the Supreme Court in US v. Cruikshank set in motion a process that would help create a society in which black Americans were oppressed and denied basic human rights -- legally, according to the courts. These injustices would last for the next hundred years, and many continue to exist to this day. In this compelling and thoroughly researched volume for young readers, Lawrence Goldstone traces the evolution of the law and the fascinating characters involved in the story of how the Supreme Court helped institutionalize racism in the American justice system"--.

Looks at the history of the United States during the Reconstruction and the Gilded Age.

Gawain Harper, having joined the Confederate Army to pacify his future father-in-law, returns to Cumberland, Mississippi in 1865 only to find another battle on his hands, this time with a deranged, manipulative man on a mission to bring his own brand of justice to the war torn community.

Presents a picture book biography of John Roy Lynch, who even though he and his brother were half Irish, their mother was a slave, which made them slaves before the Civil War. After the war's end John began to thrive in the new world, becoming justice of the peace and even becoming one of the first African American men in Congress.

The period after the Civil War was a troubled time for the United States. Known as Reconstruction, the South, which had fought for its independence, was bitter. Former slaves were freed, made citizens, and granted the right to vote, but still faced terrible discrimination. Author Marsha Ziff highlights the people and events involved in this turbulent period, examining the frustration and the determination of African Americans as they began their journey out of the ruins of slavery and the Civil War toward freedom and equality.

Presents an analysis of the Reconstruction era, looking at how Americans on both sides of the Civil War dealt with the changes caused by the conflict and the end of slavery in the years between 1863 and 1877.

An overview of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, covering slavery, the Civil War and the Confederacy, and Black politics in the South.

Photographs and illustrations provide the history of the time period after the Civil War in the south, describing how freed slaves received few rights and attempts at reconstruction and reunification met with many obstacles.