Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the Ann Arbor District library. Thank you so much for out tonight. My name is emily and im on the events team here. We want to thank our partners at literati for bringing us another wonderful event with professor williams evening. So just a really introduction so we can get onto the program Kidada Williams is associate professor of history at wayne university. She is the author. They left great marks on me africanamerican testimonies of racial violence from emancipation to world war one. She is the creator of the seizing freedom podcast, and shes here tonight to speak about her new book i saw death coming a history of terror and survival in the war against reconstruction. So we will have a talk tonight. Well have a q a. I will be running the round the room with a mic so we can speak into it because were recording tonight and live streaming. So we want folks at to be able to hear your questions. Literati is in the foyer. They are selling books this ev
Welcome to the Ann Arbor District library. Thank you so much for out tonight. My name is emily and im on the events team here. We want to thank our partners at literati for bringing us another wonderful event with professor williams evening. So just a really introduction so we can get onto the program Kidada Williams is associate professor of history at wayne university. She is the author. They left great marks on me africanamerican testimonies of racial violence from emancipation to world war one. She is the creator of the seizing freedom podcast, and shes here tonight to speak about her new book i saw death coming a history of terror and survival in the war against reconstruction. So we will have a talk tonight. Well have a q a. I will be running the round the room with a mic so we can speak into it because were recording tonight and live streaming. So we want folks at to be able to hear your questions. Literati is in the foyer. They are selling books this evening. You can pick one u
Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the Ann Arbor District library. Thank you so much for out tonight. My name is emily and im on the events team here. We want to thank our partners at literati for bringing us another wonderful event with professor williams evening. So just a really introduction so we can get onto the program Kidada Williams is associate professor of history at wayne university. She is the author. They left great marks on me africanamerican testimonies of racial violence from emancipation to world war one. She is the creator of the seizing freedom podcast, and shes here tonight to speak about her new book i saw death coming a history of terror and survival in the war against reconstruction. So we will have a talk tonight. Well have a q a. I will be running the round the room with a mic so we can speak into it because were recording tonight and live streaming. So we want folks at to be able to hear your questions. Literati is in the foyer. They are selling books this ev
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Well during the rican struction period following the civil war, Congress Investigated a sharp rise in violence against freed black slaves and their supporters. It was violence committed by a new Organization Called the ku klux klan. In 1871, hearings were held in congress, heard gripping testimony from victims about what they had suffered. These congressional hearings helped lead to new laws and the creation of a new department of justice. They had a major impact on our country for decades. Well, as part of our series Congress Investigates, we hear the story from professor sean Lee Alexander of the university of kansas. Hes the author of the book reconstruction violence and the ku klux klan hearings. Professor alexander, following the civil war, were freed. Black slaves starting to make progress and changes in their lives. Absolutely. In the immediate years of the emancipation, africanamericans organized in tremendous ways and and began to build build wealth, own property. They began t