Dark sky rising : Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow / by Henry Louis Gates, Jr ; with Tonya Bolden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., author.

Bolden, Tonya, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--1863-1877--Juvenile literature.

African Americans.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Juvenile literature.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

African Americans--Social conditions--19th century--Juvenile literature.

African Americans--Segregation--Southern States--History--Juvenile literature.

Southern States--Race relations--History--Juvenile literature.

Southern States.

African Americans--History--1863-1877.

African Americans--Social conditions--19th century.

African Americans--Segregation--Southern States--History.

Southern States--Race relations--History.

African Americans--Segregation.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Race relations.

United States.

Genre:

Young adult literature.

Instructional and educational works.

History.

Juvenile works.

Physical Description:

225 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow

Place of Publication:

New York : Scholastic Focus, 2019.

Summary:

"This is a story about America and the shaping of its democratic values during the Reconstruction era, one of our country's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In this stirring account of the Civil War, emancipation, and the struggle for rights and reunion that followed, one of the premier US scholars delivers a book that is as illuminating as it is timely. Real-life accounts of heroism, grit, betrayal, and bravery drive this book's narrative, spanning America's history from 1861 to 1915 and drawing parallels with today. Topics include the destruction of slavery, the Reconstruction Amendments, and African American resilience in times of racial unrest. Notable figures cited throughout include Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Adams, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Jacobs, Charlotte Forten, W.E.B. Du Bois, and more. Here, you will come face-to-face with America's challenge to create a society in which black and white citizens could, after a violent civil war, find a lasting peace without new lines of inequality and separation being drawn. The people and events of that noble experiment, and its violent overthrow and eventual undermining in the Jim Crow era, are central to this story. In introducing them to young readers, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., shares a history that remains vitally relevant to the challenges of our own time."--Jacket.

Contents:

Let freedom ring!

Men of color to arms!

Fraught with great difficulty

Restored

The ballot with which to save ourselves

Go on with your oppressions

White reign of terror

To the storm, to the whirlwind

Moral weakness in high places

Mighty current.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection.

ISBN:

9781338262049

1338262041

OCLC:

1034634538