reconstruction

Honorable breh Hiram Revels was a great orator. He recruited and organized 2 regiments for the Union Army as Chaplin and fought in the battle of Vicksburg. He became the 1st black U.S. Senator in the nation, essentially legitimizing the 15th amendment and integrating the national political...

@8:00 The entire video is dope however. Their view on security guards, Christianity, and simps:deadmanny:

Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism Sarah Silkey University of Georgia Press Blind No More: African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War Jonathan Daniel Wells and Sarah Gardner University of Georgia Press Celia, a...

One of the worst incidents of racial violence after the Civil War set the stage for segregation An etching of black families gathering the dead after the Colfax Massacre published in Harper's Weekly, May 10, 1873. (Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons) By Danny Lewis SMITHSONIAN.COM APRIL 13...

Not so long ago, the Civil War was taken to be this country’s central moral drama. Now we think that the aftermath—the confrontation not of blue and gray but of white and black, and the reimposition of apartheid through terror—is what has left the deepest mark on American history. Instead of...

28 days of Black history month appreciation. Post amazing stories of African people from the past and present. NO MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., MALCOLM X, MARCUS GARVEY, ROSA PARKS, THE HAITI REVOLUTION, MANSA MUSA, NAT TURNER ... LETS CELEBRATE MORE MELANIN PEOPLE ACROSS THE GLOBE THAT CHANGED...

The War Nerd: The Confederates who should've been hanged A list of three Confederate villains that should've been hung after the American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest Confederate general and enslaver of Africans.Responsible for the Fort Pillow Massacre which killed murdered dozens of...