[applause] each week, and American History tv sits in on a lecture with one of the Nations College professors. You can watch the classes here every saturday evening at 8 00 p. M. And midnight eastern. Next, college of william and melvin ely and his students compared the participants, tactics, and lasting changes of the reconstruction and civil rights eras, exploring differences between the postcivil war south and what ely called the second reconstruction of the 1960s. This class was part of a course called, african American History from emancipation to the present. It is about an hour and 10 minutes. Here we are at the end of the semester and it strikes me as a Good Opportunity maybe to compare the reconstruction period that we started off talking about in this course with what some have called the second reconstruction, which is the time of the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s. Let me tell you, first, what i mean by the first reconstruction and the second reconstruction. By th
Lauren p jackson is the author of the Award Winning books, just the behind a biography published by ww norton in 2017. The indignant generation, history of africanamerican writers and critics published by princeton, 2010, and my fathers name, a black virginia family after the civil war, published by university of Chicago Press 2012, and Ralph Ellison, emergence of genius, published in 2002, and i was always happy about that book because larry got the birthday of ellison right and i always tell people but the birth date which is year earlier but most textbooks have not changed since 2002 so thats strange to me, but go to larrys book and get the right date. Hap percent ming, best americanes says pressured criticism and nonfiction. Professor jackson is a distinguished professor of english at Johns Hopkins university and directs the Billie Holiday project. Hi is in next book project or joels lab wrench and Clint Eastwoods lost cause. Thank you for inthrow ducks, great to be he. I see you h
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