Reconstruction Era National Historical Park preserves and interprets the story of Reconstruction, a transformative era in American history.
Beaufort County, SC
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#OTD 1866, Black congregants asked Congress for funds to rebuild their church destroyed during the #CivilWar. #BlackHistoryMonth #RecordsSearch #HouseRecords bit.ly/3HjpXnN
ALT Handwritten petition from Black congregants in Georgia
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The House passed what became known as the Ku Klux Klan Act #OTD 1871. The third of what became known as the Enforcement Acts to protect African Americans from vigilante violence and maintain their civil rights in the former Confederacy. bit.ly/2VjAtWC
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#ThisDayInHistory 1868, the 14th amendment, extending liberties and rights granted by the Bill of Rights to former enslaved people, was ratified. To learn more about Reconstruction after the Civil War, find out about @ReconstructNPS nps.gov/reer/planyourvisit/p…
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For Episode 7 of the U.S. Grant History Chat, Dr @Stephen_A_West joined us to discuss the 15th Amendment and the ways Reconstruction has been remembered over time. facebook.com/USGrantNPS/post… #ULSG
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On June 19, 1865, US Major General Gordon Granger, who helped save the Union Army of the Cumberland from disaster at Chickamauga, issued his General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas.
npp-ccm.org/blog/2020/6/16/j… – at Georgia, USA
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Happy Juneteenth fam! My latest for the @TheAtlantic. Find joy today! The images from the article alone are giving me life!
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Today learned of this remarkable history of Jeremiah Haralson, a Republican legislator from Alabama during Reconstruction. Includes deep history of a contested election case. @SaberGid510 @ReconstructNPS
'The lost congressman: What happened to Jeremiah Haralson?' montgomeryadvertiser.com/in-…
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Episode 2 of the U.S. Grant History Chat is an interview w Park Ranger Emmanuel Dabney at @PetersburgNPS!
Ranger Emmanuel discusses Grant's HQ during the Petersburg siege, his research on slavery in the area, & the creation of @ReconstructNPS. #ULSG facebook.com/USGrantNPS/post…
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In difficult times community is everything. In 1879, St. Louis African Americans came together to create a community and temporary home for thousands of migrants from further south along the Mississippi River. #UpliftingSTL
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If Juneteenth was the last day that enslaved Africans learned of their emancipation, do you know what the very first day was?
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Andrew Johnson vetoed the 1866 Civil Rights Act #OnThisDay March 27th, 1866. battlefields.org/learn/artic…
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Park of the Day for Mon Apr 30, 2018 is Reconstruction Era National Monument @ReconstructNM #findyourpark #somanyparks The Reconstruction era, 1861-1898 the historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly 1/3
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Did you know Emancipation Day is a holiday in Washington DC to mark the anniversary of the signing of the Compensated Emancipation Act, which president Abraham Lincoln signed on April 16, 1862? It is annually held on April 16. #FindYourPark #BookerTWashingtonNM
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#OTD in 1865, Gen Robert E Lee surrenders the Army of Northern VA to Gen Ulysses S Grant at the McLean House in the village of Appomattox CH. The terms allow the Confederate soldiers to return home on parole after surrendering their weapons, equipment and flags. #CivilWar #APX153
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After the Civil War, debate surrounded the proposed 15th Amendment which would extend suffrage to African American men. Stone staunchly supported the it claiming “we have adopted resolutions heartily endorsing the 15th Amendment, and … rejoice in every gain for the negro."(1/4)
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This month, the nation prepares to celebrate the 200th birthday of Frederick Douglass, whose eloquent advocacy of freedom and equality for blacks and women continues to resonate today. smithmag.co/3aBHjE
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A credit to his name. Lewis Hayden looked up to fellow abolitionist, Frederick Douglass. Read this speech by Hayden, published in FD's Paper on March 2, 1855. Hayden criticizes an Alabama slaveholder for seeing humans as property: goo.gl/a4zqvv via @UDMDetroit xitter.cf/boafNHS/status/9511106…
#DidYouKnow that Harriet Hayden, the wife of Lewis Hayden, established a scholarship at Harvard Medical School for black students that still exists today? A recent recipient, Sean Fletcher in 2015, is featured in the Harvard Gazette article below.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/sto…
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.@ReconstructNM to celebrate 1st anniversary on 1/12: moultrienews.com/news/recons… via @MoultrieNews. #Reconstruction150 #SC
