Reconstruction and migration
Period covered: 1865-1930
Firsthand accounts and public records tracing citizenship, labor, family, and movement after the Civil War.
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Why these sources belong together
This collection follows Black testimony and analysis from slavery through Reconstruction and the Great Migration. It places Frederick Douglass's autobiography beside W. E. B. Du Bois's essays and Emmett J. Scott's wartime migration study.