Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 14, 2018
Most of those gains were lost, however, in 1877 when the federal government pulled troops out of the South. Once the federal government left, a backlash began. The creators of the Teach Reconstruction project are actively campaigning for the inclusion of lessons about Reconstruction in history and social studies classes.
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