Post Civil War Reconstruction: Promises Made, Promises Broken Then & Now (Maryland)

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To understand the post-Civil War Reconstruction period and its successes and failures, we must challenge much of what we were taught. We’ll honor the struggle of African slaves who bravely fought to pursue Reconstruction’s promises of freedom and equality only to see them come to a brutal end due to a tainted election and a corrupt compromise. We’ll question why the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments failed to ensure the rights of freed people and why it took 100 years for a second wave of civil rights to advance. Most importantly we’ll question how the failures of Reconstruction influence today's politics and policies for good and for bad. Videos from the PBS series may give us some answers.

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