The more details i learn about us, history, the more painful the reality is, right? It's sort of become a recurring theme in my mind, almost a slogan, it's always worse than you thought. Ye, when i first started digging into this several years ago, it was deep for me too, right? First of all, reconstruction is so important, but so neglected. I mean, when you really confront how viciously white supremacy attacked real, merging democracy after the civil war,. yes.
After the Civil War, a surprising coalition tried to remake the United States into a real multiracial democracy for the first time. Reconstruction, as the effort was called, brought dramatic change to America. For a while.
Reported and produced by John Biewen, with series collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika. The series script editor is Loretta Williams. Interviews with Victoria Smalls, Brent Morris, Eric Foner, Kidada Williams, Bobby Donaldson, and Edward Baptist.
Music by Algiers, John Erik Kaada, Eric Neveux, and Lucas Biewen. Music consulting and production help from Joe Augustine of Narrative Music.
Photo: Historian Bobby Donaldson of the University of South Carolina, at the South Carolina State House, Columbia, SC. Photo by John Biewen.