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What everyone should know about Reconstruction 150 years after the 15th Amendment's ratification

  • Written by Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, Assistant Professor of Secondary Social Studies, West Virginia University
What everyone should know about Reconstruction 150 years after the 15th Amendment's ratificationMany African Americans made education a high priority after the Civil War.National Museum of African American History and Culture

I’ll never forget a student’s response when I asked during a middle school social studies class what they knew about black history: “Martin Luther King freed the slaves.”

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