Reconstruction Era | The Great Betrayal | 6
In 1876, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden vied for the presidency. But when Election Day was over, no clear winner emerged. Amid reports of voter fraud, intimidation and viole...
5 Juli 202344min
Reconstruction Era | The Panic | 5
On Easter Sunday, 1873, an armed white mob battled a Black militia over control of a courthouse in a rural Louisiana parish. In the end, as many as 150 Black citizens were massacred. It was one the de...
28 Juni 202341min
Reconstruction Era | The Bloody Chasm | 4
In 1870, the ratification of the 15th Amendment enshrined Black men’s right to vote in the Constitution. Senator Hiram Revels became the first Black man to serve in Congress. Across the South, Black m...
21 Juni 202341min
Reconstruction Era | Impeachment | 3
In the spring of 1867, over President Andrew Johnson’s veto, the Republican-controlled Congress passed the Reconstruction Acts, putting the U.S. Army in control of the South and giving Black Southerne...
14 Juni 202342min
Reconstruction Era | The Radical Revolution | 2
In December 1865, the first postwar Congress convened in Washington, D.C. With Black Southerners still facing rampant violence and discrimination, the Republican majority blocked the former Confederat...
7 Juni 202342min
Reconstruction Era | From the Ashes of War | 1
In the spring of 1865, the United States celebrated the end of four years of Civil War. As American soldiers laid down their weapons, four million formerly enslaved Black people in the South grappled ...
31 Maj 202343min
United Farm Workers | The Fall | 3
By the early 1970s the United Farm Workers had won a series of successes in California and were attempting to extend their reach into other states. But soon, conservative politicians began to push bac...
24 Maj 202343min
United Farm Workers | The Grape Strike | 2
In 1964, the United States finally ended the controversial Bracero Program, which had flooded American farms with millions of low-paid guest workers from Mexico who competed for jobs with resident lab...
17 Maj 202341min
