Black History: After Emancipation

• Reconstruction, America After the Civil War—Episode 1 Experience the aftermath of the Civil War—a bewildering, exhilarating, and terrifying time. African-Americans who had played a crucial role in the war now grappled with the terms and implications of Reconstruction and their hard-won freedom.
• Reconstruction, America After the Civil War—Episode 2 Discover how post-Civil War America was a new world. Learn how African-Americans made political, social and economic progress in the face of violence.
• Reconstruction, America After the Civil War—Episode 3 Explore the rise of Jim Crow and the undermining of Reconstruction’s legal and political legacy.
• Reconstruction, America After the Civil War—Episode 4 See African-Americans in the 1900s using artistic expression against revisionist history and racism.

• The Reconstruction Era in America, a story
• The Untold History of Post-Civil War 'Neoslavery'
• Reconstruction and Its Aftermath The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship The exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress. Displaying more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings, this is the largest black history exhibit ever held at the Library, and the first exhibition of any kind to feature presentations in all three of the Library's buildings.