Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Penguin Press

If emancipation sparked "a new birth of freedom" in Lincoln's America, why was it necessary to march in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s America? In this new book, Henry Louis Gates seeks to answer that question in a history that moves from the Reconstruction Era through to the "nadir" of the African-American experience under Jim Crow, through to World War I and the Harlem Renaissance.

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