Beginning tomorrow, many PBS stations are rerunning Henry Louis Gates’s four hour series Reconstruction: America After the Civil War. Check your local PBS station’s schedule to find out when it will be on in your area.
Here is the PBS description of the series:
Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s documentary series, Reconstruction: America After the Civil War, explores the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary social change. The twelve years that composed the post-war Reconstruction era (1865-77) witnessed a seismic shift in the meaning and makeup of our democracy, with millions of former slaves and free black people seeking out their rightful place as equal citizens under the law. Though tragically short-lived, this bold democratic experiment was, in the words of W. E. B. Du Bois, a ‘brief moment in the sun’ for African Americans, when they could advance, and achieve, education, exercise their right to vote, and run for and win public office.
You can find the schedule for Long Island, NYC, and New Jersey here.
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