State Standards are Failing to Teach Reconstruction and Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle
By Ana Rosado, Gideon Cohn-Postar and Mimi Eisen | January 12, 2021 | History News Network
In 2016, the National Park Service described Reconstruction as “one of the most complicated, poorly understood, and significant periods in American history.”
Even as ongoing crises with obvious links to the Reconstruction era continue to reinforce its significance today, most people living in the United States know shockingly little about the policies, people, conflicts, and ideas that shaped Reconstruction and its aftermath.
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