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Reconstruction and beyond

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Last Modified April 8, 2021
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The First South Carolina Legislature

This image shows 63 members of South Carolina’s 1868 state legislature, the first state legislature with a Black majority.

 African American and Radical Republican members of the South Carolina Legislature in the 1870s.
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Lesson

The World the War Made

Students explore the ways that Emancipation and Radical Reconstruction altered the lives of many Americans.

Survivors of slavery observe Juneteenth in hats, canes, and bonnets inAustin, TX