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    Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus)
    Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus)
    Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus)
    Audiobook3 hours

    Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus)

    Written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Tonya Bolden

    Narrated by Dion Graham

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    About this audiobook

    Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents a journey through America's past and our nation's attempts at renewal in this look at the Civil War's conclusion, Reconstruction, and the rise of Jim Crow segregation.

    This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring account of emancipation, the struggle for citizenship and national reunion, and the advent of racial segregation, the renowned Harvard scholar delivers an audiobook that is illuminating and timely. Real-life accounts drive the narrative, spanning the half century between the Civil War and Birth of a Nation. Here, you will come face-to-face with the people and events of Reconstruction's noble democratic experiment, its tragic undermining, and the drawing of a new "color line" in the long Jim Crow era that followed.

    In introducing young listeners to them, and to the resiliency of the African American people at times of progress and betrayal, Professor Gates shares a history that remains vitally relevant today.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScholastic
    Release dateJan 29, 2019
    ISBN9781338330694
    Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus)
    Author

    Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

    Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored or coauthored twenty-two books and created eighteen documentary films, including Finding Your Roots. His six-part PBS documentary, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program-Long Form, as well as a Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and NAACP Image Award.

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    • 5/5
      Grateful for this short but insightful read.

      Thank you!
      Looking forward to more.