Tag: The Black Politicians of Reconstruction | The History You Didn’t Learn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfgNdOCdowE When we learn about the Reconstruction Era in school, it’s often taught as a dark period in American history, a time of upheaval and unrest right after the Cvil War. But what often gets overlooked is that, for a brief period of time, thousands of black representatives were elected to office all over the…