No 40 acres and no mule for you.
Posted: March 30, 2012 Filed under: academics | Tags: African American, double-consciousness, Eric Foner, Jim Crow laws, Reconstruction Era of the United States, Souls of Black Folk, Southern United States, W. E. B. Du Bois Leave a comment
This semester I am enjoying a class on US history between 1877 and 1916. One of the first discussions we had in the class was about the boundary dates of the period. Even the professor isn’t completely sure why the class ends at 1916. World War I or America’s shift toward world power, we posit. But 1877 is definitely significant — it marks the end of Reconstruction. Read the rest of this entry »
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