Introduction by Bryan Stevenson. "This report is written, researched, designed, and produced by the Equal Justice Initiative. It is a part of a series of reports researched, written, and produced by EJI on the history of racial inequality in America. We would like to specially thank Jennifer Taylor for research, writing, editing, and photo research ..."--Acknowledgments Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-118).
Contents:
Introduction -- Journey to freedom : emancipation and citizenship -- Inequality after enslavement -- Emancipation by proclamation, then by law -- Freedom to fear : a terrifying and deadly backlash -- Black political mobilization and White backlash -- Fighting for education -- Resisting economic exploitation -- Documenting Reconstruction violence : known and unknown horrors -- 34 documented mass lynchings during the Reconstruction era -- Racial terror and Reconstruction : a state snapshot -- The danger of freedom -- Political violence -- Economic intimidation -- Enforcing the racial social order -- Organized terror and community massacres -- Accusations of crime -- Arbitrary and random violence -- Reconstruction's end -- Reconstruction vs. Southern Redemption -- Judicial and political abandonment -- Redemption wins -- A vanishing hope -- A truth that needs telling.
Summary:
"EJI's new report, Reconstruction in America, documents nearly 2,000 more confirmed racial terror lynchings of Black people by white mobs in America than previously detailed. The report examines the 12 years following the Civil War when lawlessness and violence perpetrated by white leaders created an American future of racial hierarchy, white supremacy, and Jim Crow laws--an era from which our nation has yet to recover"--Equal Justice Initiative website, viewed June 29, 2020
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1184052788
Locations:
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.