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Book Displays: Equal Justice Initiative 2022: Web Sites

Virtual displays based on the annual A History of Racial Injustice calendar.

Online Articles

Black hope, white power: Emancipation, reconstruction and the legacy of unequal schooling in the US South, 1861–1880
By Ronald E. Butchart (3/25/10) - Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education
How White Violence Crushed the Progressive Change Formerly Enslaved People Won During Reconstruction
By Clyde W. Ford (5/23/22) - Time Magazine
Nearly 2,000 Black Americans Were Lynched During Reconstruction
By Alex Fox (6/18/20) - Smithsonian Magazine
Southern Violence During Reconstruction
American Experience - PBS
White Supremacy, Terrorism, and the Failure of Reconstruction in the United States
By Daniel Byman (7/19/21) - International Security

Online Exhibits

The African American Odyssey - Reconstruction and Its Aftermath
Library of Congress
Racial Violence and the Red Summer
National Archives