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Excerpts from Reconstruction: America After the Civil War, Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s documentary series provide young historians with insight into the struggles the country faced in the years after the Civil war. Viewers learn about the Black Codes designed to restrict the freedom of former slaves, the impact of the Fifteenth Amendment that granted African American men the right to vote, and the work of Civil Rights leader Ida B. Wells. In addition, class members examine the propaganda in D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation that sought to reframe the history of Reconstruction.
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african american history, african americans, black codes, civil rights, civil rights leaders, famous african americans, film analysis, jim crow laws, primary sources, propaganda, reconstruction, the civil rights movement, woodrow wilson, primary source analysis, primary source images, the reconstruction era, the naacp, the fifteenth amendment, the fourteenth amendment, the ku klux klan, the thirteenth amendment
