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New Report Says 2,000 Blacks Lynched During Reconstruction Era

A new report from the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) says that from the end of the Civil War in 1865 until the traditional close of…

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Resource: Bios of Virginia’s Black Reconstruction Era Legislators

A new database of Black Legislators from Reconstruction Era Virginia is available. You can read about it here. You can find short bios of the…

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