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Reconstruction: America After The Civil War

Reconstruction: America After The Civil War

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Explore the rise of Jim Crow and the undermining of Reconstruction's legal and political legacy, and see how African Americans fought back using artistic expression to put forward a 'New Negro' for a new century.

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