An organization that founded the nation’s first memorial to lynching victims announced Tuesday that it has documented thousands of additional killings of black people during the era of Reconstruction.

Around 2,000 black people were lynched over the 12-year-period following the end of the Civil War as people refused to accept their new-found freedoms and attempted to "defend white supremacy," ...

Historians say that this wave of laws making it harder to vote echo the backlash to the electoral gains made by African Americans during Reconstruction (1865-1877), the era of political revolution in ...

Juneteenth —which marks the final emancipation of enslaved individuals by the Union army— is now a federal and Connecticut holiday after Gov. Ned Lamont’s signature on May 27. As my students recently ...

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture presents a new exhibition, “Make Good the Promises: Reconstruction and Its Legacies,” exploring the turbulent Reconstruction era ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This April 23, 2018, file photo, shows a display at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., that ...