In the early 1960s, when I was a little boy, the Ku Klux Klan attacked my family by burning a cross in front of our house, ...

According to the Historic Huntsville Foundation, many of Huntsville's builders were Black workers and entrepreneurs who found ...

Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over ...

Reconstruction ... era. David Blight, Historian: This is the great myth of Reconstruction... that it was an oppressive set of regimes sent into the South to invent the Republican Party, using the ...

German-born political cartoonist ... contradictions. And as Reconstruction-era corruption and violence spun out of control, he drew cartoons that criticized black legislators as strongly as ...

Getty file Share Chicago’s Black leaders celebrated Black history ... In his speech, Johnson declared the beginning of a “new reconstruction era,” referencing the period after the Civil ...