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Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Reconstruction | Part 2, Hour 1
Season 2019
Episode 3
Hour three of the series examines the years 1877-1896, a transitional period that saw visions of a “New South” set the stage for the rise of Jim Crow and the undermining of Reconstruction’s legal and political legacy. While some African Americans attempted to migrate, the vast majority remained in the South, where sharecropping, convict leasing, disfranchisement, and lynchings drew a “color line”.
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Racist imagery saturated popular culture and Southern propaganda manipulated the story.
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Post-Civil War America was a new world.
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The aftermath of the Civil War was bewildering, exhilarating . . . and terrifying.