Wonderscape
The Freedmen's Bureau: Support for Freed Black Communities
This video delves into the efforts of the Freedmen's Bureau, established in 1865, to assist formerly enslaved individuals in the South. Discover how the Bureau provided food, housing, legal aid, and education, helped reunite families,...
Wonderscape
John Lewis: Early Life and Path to Activism
This video outlines the early life of civil rights leader John Lewis, born to sharecropping parents in Alabama. It highlights his inspiration from Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., his participation in sit-ins, and his commitment to...
Weird History
What the South Was Like During Reconstruction
On April 15, 1865, Lincoln was gunned down in Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth, a man sympathetic to the defeated Confederacy. In the years following the end of the Civil War and Lincoln’s assassination, his successor Andrew Johnson...
A&E Television
History.com: Sharecropping
Discusses the sharecropping system that emerged during Reconstruction after the Civil War. With sharecropping, black families would rent small plots of land in return for a portion of their crop, to be given to the landowner at the end...