Dark sky rising : Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow /
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.,
Dark sky rising : Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow / Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr ; with Tonya Bolden. - First edition. - 225 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Let freedom ring! -- Men of color to arms! -- Fraught with great difficulty -- Restored -- The ballot with which to save ourselves -- Go on with your oppressions -- White reign of terror -- To the storm, to the whirlwind -- Moral weakness in high places -- Mighty current.
"This is a story about America and the shaping of its democratic values during the Reconstruction era, one of our country's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In this stirring account of the Civil War, emancipation, and the struggle for rights and reunion that followed, one of the premier US scholars delivers a book that is as illuminating as it is timely. Real-life accounts of heroism, grit, betrayal, and bravery drive this book's narrative, spanning America's history from 1861 to 1915 and drawing parallels with today. Topics include the destruction of slavery, the Reconstruction Amendments, and African American resilience in times of racial unrest. Notable figures cited throughout include Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Adams, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Jacobs, Charlotte Forten, W.E.B. Du Bois, and more. Here, you will come face-to-face with America's challenge to create a society in which black and white citizens could, after a violent civil war, find a lasting peace without new lines of inequality and separation being drawn. The people and events of that noble experiment, and its violent overthrow and eventual undermining in the Jim Crow era, are central to this story. In introducing them to young readers, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., shares a history that remains vitally relevant to the challenges of our own time."--Jacket.
Grades 4-6. Ages 9-12.
9781338262049 1338262041
Scholastic, Po Box 7502, Jefferson City, MO, USA, 65102 SAN 860-0023
2018016732
African Americans--History--1863-1877.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African Americans--Social conditions--19th century.
African Americans--Segregation--History.--Southern States
Southern States--Race relations--History.
Young adult literature.
Instructional and educational works.
Dark sky rising : Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow / Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr ; with Tonya Bolden. - First edition. - 225 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Let freedom ring! -- Men of color to arms! -- Fraught with great difficulty -- Restored -- The ballot with which to save ourselves -- Go on with your oppressions -- White reign of terror -- To the storm, to the whirlwind -- Moral weakness in high places -- Mighty current.
"This is a story about America and the shaping of its democratic values during the Reconstruction era, one of our country's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In this stirring account of the Civil War, emancipation, and the struggle for rights and reunion that followed, one of the premier US scholars delivers a book that is as illuminating as it is timely. Real-life accounts of heroism, grit, betrayal, and bravery drive this book's narrative, spanning America's history from 1861 to 1915 and drawing parallels with today. Topics include the destruction of slavery, the Reconstruction Amendments, and African American resilience in times of racial unrest. Notable figures cited throughout include Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Adams, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Jacobs, Charlotte Forten, W.E.B. Du Bois, and more. Here, you will come face-to-face with America's challenge to create a society in which black and white citizens could, after a violent civil war, find a lasting peace without new lines of inequality and separation being drawn. The people and events of that noble experiment, and its violent overthrow and eventual undermining in the Jim Crow era, are central to this story. In introducing them to young readers, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., shares a history that remains vitally relevant to the challenges of our own time."--Jacket.
Grades 4-6. Ages 9-12.
9781338262049 1338262041
Scholastic, Po Box 7502, Jefferson City, MO, USA, 65102 SAN 860-0023
2018016732
African Americans--History--1863-1877.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African Americans--Social conditions--19th century.
African Americans--Segregation--History.--Southern States
Southern States--Race relations--History.
Young adult literature.
Instructional and educational works.