1865-1951

Examines the Reconstruction period of the south at the end of the Civil War and discusses such issues as the end of the Confederacy, Lincoln's and Johnson's opposing views, the Freedman's Bureau, Lincoln's assassination and the Johnson presidency, and African Americans in the post-war decades.

Covers African-American advancements during the period of the federal government's management of the defeated Southern states.

In a rural southern town in 1946, a white man and his son witness the lynching of an innocent black man. Includes historical note on lynching.

Examines the conflict that took place in the South in the years following the end of the Civil War over the rights of African-Americans, recounting key events of that civil rights battle and profiling men and women who worked to promote those rights.

Explores the impact the Civil War had on America, discussing the political, social, and economic struggles the nation faced after the war ended.

Discusses the background and effects of the Jim Crow laws that were enacted after the Civil War to keep the races segregated.