The Black Congressmen of Reconstruction: Death of Representation

Mobituaries with Mo Rocca

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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During the 1870s, more than a dozen African American men, many of whom had been born into slavery, were elected to the U.S. Congress. These political pioneers symbolized the sky high hopes of millions of former slaves during the years right after the Civil War. It was a period that ended all too quickly. But it happened. Mo talks to Professor Henry Louis Gates, Reconstruction historian Eric Foner, and a descendant of one of the legendary lawmakers.

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0:43.0	Gates Jr.
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0:48.9	We're looking at a print, an original lithograph from the 19th century pictured in it, are seven
0:54.9	men.
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