![]() ![]() In 1915, President Woodrow Wilson screened D.W. ![]() The imposition of black codes, rigid Jim Crow segregation, and a surge of lynchings happened in this period. While the Southern states recognized the illegality of slavery, there was no recognition that African Americans were equal to whites, and, as Gates illustrates, a combination of religion, science, literature, and racist propaganda, made ubiquitous through the emerging technology of the lithograph, portrayed Negroes as genetically inferior, morally debased, lazy, childlike, and bestial, with devastating effect. ![]() Gates refers to the years between 18 as the Redemption period. The roots of freedom promised to African Americans by Reconstruction were not allowed to take hold. recounts in Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, Reconstruction also laid the groundwork for a vigorous backlash of white supremacist ideology. But, as the prolific Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. ![]() In that time, chattel slavery was outlawed, African-American men won the right to vote and equal protection under the law, and former slaves assumed elected offices at the local, state, and federal level. The Reconstruction period following the American Civil War lasted barely a dozen years. ‘Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow’ ![]()
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