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Basic Info

First Air: April 09, 2019

Rating: ⭐ 7.0/10 (4 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 4

Last Episode

Name: Part 2, Hour 2

Season: 1, Episode: 4

Air Date: 2019-04-16

Runtime: 55 min

The turn of the century is known as the ‘nadir’ of race relations, when white supremacy was ascendant and African Americans faced both physical and psychological oppression. Racist imagery saturated popular culture and Southern propaganda manipulated the story of the Civil War and Reconstruction. But African Americans found ways to fight back, using artistic expression to put forward a “New Negro.”

Videos

Inside Look | Reconstruction: America After the Civil War | PBS (YouTube)

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

2019 1 seasons 4 episodes ⭐ 7.0/10 4 votes

Overview

Explore the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary social change. The twelve years that composed the post-war Reconstruction era (1865-77) witnessed a seismic shift in the meaning and makeup of our democracy.