Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 14, 2018
Rowan University history professor William Carrigan has written that students are unfamiliar with Reconstruction because popular culture focuses on the Civil War — not the post-war era. Historians estimate that as many as 2,000 blacks were elected to local, state and federal offices during Reconstruction.
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