Theme
Reconstruction
Explore this theme across 16 historical figures, 13 heritage sites,23 lessons, 2 cultural references, and 3 journeys.
Historical Figures
William Henry Miles
1888–1975
Richard Vanderhorst
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Freedpeople of Houston
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Reverend Jack Yates
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O.W. Gurley
1868–1935
Greenwood Business Owners
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Booker T. Washington
1856–1915
Samuel Chapman Armstrong
1839–1893
Mary Lou Holt
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Enslaved workers of Magnolia Plantation
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Laura Towne
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Ellen Murray
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Martin Luther King Jr.
1929–1968
Robert Smalls
1839–1915
Charlotte Forten Grimké
1837–1912
Bryan Stevenson
1959–?
Heritage Sites
Alcorn State University
Lorman, MS
Bowie State University
Bowie, MD
Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church — National Headquarters
Memphis, TN
Fayetteville State University
Fayetteville, NC
Fort Gibson Historic Site
Fort Gibson, OK
Freedmen's Town Historic District (Fourth Ward)
Houston, TX
Greenwood District (Black Wall Street)
Tulsa, OK
Hampton University
Hampton, VA
Magnolia Plantation and the Slave Street
Cloutierville, LA
Old Cahawba Archaeological Park
Orrville, AL
Penn Center
St. Helena Island, SC
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
Beaufort, SC
The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration
Montgomery, Alabama
Curriculum Lessons
How Do We Know What We Know? An Introduction to the Curriculum's Questions
Unit 1
Quilombo dos Palmares: An African Kingdom in Brazil
Unit 3
1931: A Colonial Exposition Displays the Soldiers Who Fought for France
Unit 4
Freedom's Soldiers: African Americans and the Civil War
Unit 4
Black Reconstruction: The Congressmen, the Legislation, and the Collapse
Unit 4
The General Strike & The End of Slavery (1861–1865)
Unit 4
Reconstruction, Jim Crow & the Founding of HBCUs
Unit 4.5
Serving and Sacrificing: Black Military Service from Reconstruction to World War II
Unit 4.5
The Black Church: Institution, Liberation & the HBCU Pipeline
Unit 4.5
The 13th Amendment Loophole: Convict Leasing & the Re-Enslavement of Black America
Unit 4.5
Peonage and the Debt Trap: Slavery by Another Name
Unit 4.5
Third World Marxism & Black Radical Thought: Rodney, Fanon, and C.L.R. James
Unit 5
The Voting Rights Act, Shelby County, and the Unfinished Franchise
Unit 6
The Literary Diaspora: Black Pulitzer Prize Winners & the Canon They Built
Unit 6.5
Black Political Representation: From Reconstruction to the Senate Floor
Unit 7
Reconstruction: America's First Multiracial Democracy
Unit 7
From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter
Unit 7
Running North: Black Canada and the Diaspora's Northern Arc
Unit 7.5
Forty Acres: The Promise, the Theft, and the Template
Unit 8
Black Wall Street and the Architecture of Black Wealth
Unit 8
'No Victor, No Vanquished': A Reconciliation Policy Nigerians Still Argue About
Unit 9
The Black Church: Faith, Community and Freedom
Unit 10
Justice for a Million Cases: The Gacaca Courts and Their Limits
Unit 10