reconstruction (u.s. history, 1865-1877)

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

"The year is 1867, and the South has lost the Civil War. Those on the lowest rungs, like Shad's family, fear that the freed slaves will take the few jobs available. In this climate of despair and fear, a group has formed. Today we know it as the KKK"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses the conditions of African Americans in the South before, during, and after the Civil War, and the migration of many former slaves, led by such men as Benjamin Singleton and Henry Adams, to the West looking for a better life.

Describes the struggles following the Civil War to decide how to deal with the newly freed slaves, through the years of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, sharecropping, and segregation.

Original source documents are woven into a narrative providing the experiences and points of view of former slaves during the long process of Reconstruction following the Civil War.

Chronicles the lives and hardships of various African American families who were forced to endure the difficulties of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Discusses how these people eventually found justice and features full-color and black-and-white images throughout.

Presents a study of the Reconstruction period following the Civil War and discusses both the positive and negative effects of Northern carpetbaggers and why reconstruction failed.

Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Sartoris family, who with their code of personal responsibility and courage, stands for the best of the Old South's traditions.

Ten years after the Civil War's end, twelve-year-old Addy, abandoned by her parents, is taken from the horrid town of No-Bob by schoolteacher Frank Russell and his bride, but when her father returns to claim her she must find another way to leave her O'Donnell past behind.

Researches the character of slavery, new freedom and racial relationships on both African-Americans and whites of the Reconstruction period.