Reconstruction: The Attempt to Build an Interracial Democracy in America: 4 Fridays at 2:00 p.m. February 5, 12, 19 and 26 in the Kiva Room.
$10.00
Presenter: Richard Schneirov, a Sun City resident, is a retired professor of history from Indiana State University where he taught for 33 years and has lectured and published on the period from the period from the Civil War through the late 19th century.
Description
This four week course is a follow up to last years “Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War”. It starts with the attempt of freed people and the Republican Party to establish an interracial democracy in the South. It then proceeds to examine the mass terror campaign unleashed by southern whites to reestablish white supremacy in Jim Crow and Black disenfranchisement starting in the 1890s. The course also examines how Reconstruction unfolded in the North and West and includes the growing importance of women in advocating for their own freedom as well as that of Blacks. 4 Fridays at 2:00 p.m. February 5, 12, 19 and 26 in the Kiva Room.
