African Americans and Reconstruction

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Searchable printed works documenting the African American struggle for identity from the Civil War's end (1865) through the dawn of Jim Crow (1883). Covers Reconstruction politics, the Freedmen's Bureau, Black office-holders, and the Ku Klux Klan through primary sources.

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