African Americans in the Gilded Age.

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

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Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

Segregation--United States.

Segregation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (6 minutes)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Makematic, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

This video provides a general overview of the experience of African Americans during the pivotal years of the Gilded Age, from the 1860s to the early 1900s. Despite the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution after the Civil War, which abolished slavery and granted citizenship and voting rights to African American men, millions of African Americans across the nation still faced an uphill struggle for equality and civil rights. Political disenfranchisement was widespread and segregation in the form of "Jim Crow" laws affected nearly every facet of public and private life in the South. Many African Americans migrated from the South to the North and West during this period. This era also saw the rise of dozens of notable African American civil rights leaders including Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Groups like the N.A.AC.P. were also established during this period to fight for the expansion of liberty and equality for African Americans.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed May 06, 2024).

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