Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former slaves that divided the country after the Civil War. The same issues would re-emerge decades later, in the civil rights movement of ...

When Vice President Andrew Johnson assumed the office of president upon the death of Abraham Lincoln in mid-April 1865, he initially incurred favor with Republican legislators in Congress, including ...

National Center for Civil and Human Rights Unveils Broken Promises Gallery “Guided” by Ida B. Wells ATLANTA, GEORGIA / ACCESS ...

Close-up of a mural, entitled 'Douglass Appealing to President Lincoln' , by William Edouard Scott, 1943, which depicts Frederick Douglass as he petitions for the participation of African Americans in ...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar comes a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time The ...

A new report from the nonprofit Zinn Education Project found that 90 percent of states have insufficient or non-existent lesson coverage of Reconstruction in schools. Historians warn that eclipsing ...

The center aims to provide a comprehensive view of North Carolinians' lives during the Civil War and Reconstruction, encompassing diverse perspectives. While facing some skepticism, the project has ...

The first Reconstruction Era after the Civil War promised full and equal citizenship for black people in our society. The understatement of the century is that we are still working on fulfilling that ...

President Barack Obama designated as national monuments three Southern sites connected with the Civil Rights movement and post-Civil War Reconstruction. The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, ...

Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former slaves that divided the country after the Civil War. The same issues would re-emerge decades later, in the civil rights movement of ...