RECONSTRUCTION PHOTO ESSAY

Tad Desai Vikram Biswas

Overall Thesis

During the Reconstruction period, African-Americans were granted newfound freedoms, but were forced to fend for themselves in applying those freedoms. Through the process of battling white oppression, African-Americans revolutionized their own society, politically, socially, and economically

Education Thesis

To newly freed slaves, education was crucial to truly having freedom and pride, as it would give them the same opportunities that whites had, but it also provided an entrance point for aspiring freedmen politicians that tied together newly formed communities.

Education: Backbone of African-American society.

African-American communities aggregated around schools.

Provided African-Americans with same opportunities

First stepping stone for politics

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