04182cam a2200325 4500 528953126 TxAuBib 20211108120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780063160668 0063160668 B08XQQKSF2 Amazon 78f374e6-cdad-43eb-a88d-5b64cbc38e45 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6103351 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Conwill, Kinshasha Holman. Make Good the Promises [Libby] : Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies. Amistad, 2021. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 110MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><strong>The companion volume to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September 2021</strong></p> <p><strong>With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric Foner and a preface by veteran museum director and historian Spencer Crew</strong></p> <p><strong>An incisive and illuminating analysis of the enduring legacy of the post-Civil War period known as Reconstruction—a comprehensive story of Black Americans' struggle for human rights and dignity and the failure of the nation to fulfill its promises of freedom, citizenship, and justice.</strong><br /> In the aftermath of the Civil War, millions of free and newly freed African Americans were determined to define themselves as equal citizens in a country without slavery—to own land, build secure families, and educate themselves and their children. Seeking to secure safety and justice, they successfully campaigned for civil and political rights, including the right to vote. Across an expanding America, Black politicians were elected to all levels of government, from city halls to state capitals to Washington, DC.</p> <p>But those gains were short-lived. By the mid-1870s, the federal government stopped enforcing civil rights laws, allowing white supremacists to use suppression and violence to regain power in the Southern states. Black men, women, and children suffered racial terror, segregation, and discrimination that confined them to second-class citizenship, a system known as Jim Crow that endured for decades.</p> <p>More than a century has passed since the revolutionary political, social, and economic movement known as Reconstruction, yet its profound consequences reverberate in our lives today. Make Good the Promises explores five distinct yet intertwined legacies of Reconstruction—Liberation, Violence, Repair, Place, and Belief—to reveal their lasting impact on modern society. It is the story of Frederick Douglass, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Hiram Revels, Ida B. Wells, and scores of other Black men and women who reshaped a nation—and of the persistence of white supremacy and the perpetuation of the injustices of slavery continued by other means and codified in state and federal laws.</p> <p>With contributions by leading scholars, and illustrated with 80 images from the exhibition, Make Good the Promises shows how Black Lives Matter, #SayHerName, antiracism, and other current movements for repair find inspiration from the lessons of Reconstuction. It touches on questions critical then and now: What is the meaning of freedom and equality? What does it mean to be an American? Powerful and eye-opening, it is a reminder that history is far from past; it lives within each of us and shapes our world and who we are.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Gardullo, Paul. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=78f374e6-cdad-43eb-a88d-5b64cbc38e45&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=78f374e6-cdad-43eb-a88d-5b64cbc38e45&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=78f374e6-cdad-43eb-a88d-5b64cbc38e45&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)