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Title Make good the promises : reclaiming Reconstruction and its legacies / edited by Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Paul Gardullo ; foreword by Eric Foner ; preface by Spencer R. Crew ; contributions by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Mary Elliott, Candra Flanagan, Katherine Franke, Thavolia Glymph [and 3 others].

Publication Info. New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]

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 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  305.896 Con    ---  Available
Edition First edition.
Description 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
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Note "In association with the National Museum of African American History and Culture."
Companion volume to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening September 2021.
Summary "An incisive and illuminating analysis of the enduring legacy of the post-Civil War period known as Reconstruction--a comprehensive story of Black Americans' struggle for human rights and dignity and the failure of the nation to fulfill its promises of freedom, citizenship, and justice"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-213) and index.
Subject African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Influence.
Added Author Conwill, Kinshasha, editor.
Gardullo, Paul, editor.
National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.), issuing body.
ISBN 9780063160644
0063160641

 
    
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