Reconstruction: Why We Didn't Learn About It
Civics 101
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The Importance of Reconstruction in Education
Mimi Eisen: Reconstruction is one of the most consequential and instructive eras of US history. It was this time during and after the Civil War with the emancipation of 4 million enslaved people in the South, she says. Now there would be a nationwide struggle for the right to actual freedom, according to Eisen. All of which was met with violent resistance and white terrorism,. She writes that state standards fail to teach the truth about reconstruction.
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