Reconstruction-era opponents of racial equality popularized the charge that protecting civil rights would amount to the end of capitalism.
Stumbling on a forgotten Reconstruction tragedy, in a forgotten corner of Louisiana
No one should fear a history that asks a country to live up to its highest ideals.
A former slave urges Congress to grant black Americans the vote.
“Having converted the loyal blacks from slaves into the condition of citizens of the United States, there can be no reason or justice or policy in allowing them to be made, in localities recently Rebel, the subjects of whites who have but just purged themselves from the guilt of treason.”