Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow in this historical study of a pivotal era in the United States. Focusing on race, power, citizenship, and social change, the book examines the forces that shaped America after the Civil War.
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Stony the Road explores the period of Reconstruction and its aftermath in the United States.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. examines the persistence of white supremacy and the forces that shaped the rise of Jim Crow.
The book considers a defining era in American history through the connected themes of race, power, citizenship, and social change.
It offers historical context for understanding how the promises and conflicts of Reconstruction influenced the nation’s subsequent development.
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