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Title details for Dark Sky Rising by Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Available

Dark Sky Rising

Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus)

by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Tonya Bolden
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents a journey through America's past and our nation's attempts at renewal in this look at the Civil War's conclusion, Reconstruction, and the rise of Jim Crow segregation.

This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring account of emancipation, the struggle for citizenship and national reunion, and the advent of racial segregation, the renowned Harvard scholar delivers a book that is illuminating and timely. Real-life accounts drive the narrative, spanning the half century between the Civil War and Birth of a Nation. Here, you will come face-to-face with the people and events of Reconstruction's noble democratic experiment, its tragic undermining, and the drawing of a new "color line" in the long Jim Crow era that followed. In introducing young readers to them, and to the resiliency of the African American people at times of progress and betrayal, Professor Gates shares a history that remains vitally relevant today.

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  • Release date

    January 29, 2019

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781338330694
      • File size: 88728 KB
      • Duration: 03:04:50

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Dion Graham's calm, confident voice takes middle-grade listeners through an introduction to a turbulent time in American history. Henry Gates and Tonya Bolden's title is a clear and lucid primer to America at the end of the Civil War, during Reconstruction, and up to the beginning of Jim Crow segregation. The audiobook version omits the many documents included in the text while delivering a smoothly flowing narrative. Graham's assured tones explain important people and events, such as PLESSY V. FERGUSON and the Dred Scott case, leaving young listeners with a better understanding of the lives of freedmen and women in the wake of the Civil War. Justly expressing outrage at these people's tenuous and changing rights, this audiobook is all too reflective of our current times. E.J.F. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

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