Battle Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

“Over a century ago, prodded by the demands of four million men and women just emerging from slavery, Americans made their first attempt to…

— Eric Foner

One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet so futile.…

— Anonymous

Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance.

— Ron Chernow

The backlash against gains of African Americans in the Reconstruction Era was swift and severe.

— Michelle Alexander

“The president was running out of room to maneuver as the country backed away from further federal interference in the South. The outcry over…

— Ron Chernow

I have argued tirelessly, nearly endlessly, in so many books, about the need for the social, the economic reconstruction of society. The demand that…

— Michael Eric Dyson

It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction but slavery…

— Gerald Horne

The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one…

— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

A slew of federal civil rights legislation protecting the newly freed slaves was passed during the relatively brief but extraordinary period of black advancement…

— Michelle Alexander

“[T]he slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery. —W.E.B Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America…

— Michelle Alexander

“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly…

— William Silverman

“The revival movement was responsible for a tremendous spread of Christianity among slaves in the South. Slaves came in their thousands to camp meetings…

— Andrew Himes