In the wake of the Union victory in 1865 over the traitorous white South, the expectation of those who had fought to defend slavery was that the federal government would impose a radically new order...view
Civil Rights Library
Civil Rights Library
This section of the site is under construction. We have begun with many of the basic federal civil rights protections (below), and you will see a link to the text of the original Reconstruction Era...view
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Citizenship, Civil rights, History, Law
April 10, 2013 — Rebecca Scott, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and professor of law at the University of Michigan, specializes in the study of post-emancipation...view
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History, Race
November 9, 2010 — James Loewen is co-editor of the recently published “Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader.” Remapping Debate sat down with him to discuss the importance of bringing back from...view