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Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Reconstruction | Part 2, Hour 2
Season 2019
Episode 4
The turn of the century is known as the ‘nadir’ of race relations, when white supremacy was ascendant and African Americans faced both physical and psychological oppression. Racist imagery saturated popular culture and Southern propaganda manipulated the story of the Civil War and Reconstruction. But African Americans found ways to fight back, using artistic expression to put forward a “New Negro”
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Hour three of the series examines the years 1877-1896
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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.