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
Many African Americans made education a high priority after the Civil War.National Museum of African American History and CultureI’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.”
Martin Luther King Jr. was...