Though Justice Sleeps: African Americans 1880-1900

by Barbara Bair

The period of Reconstruction that followed the end of the Civil War was a time of both tremendous promise and the deep conflict of ideas. At stake was the question of what the racial future of America would be. In the years between 1880 and 1900, the wonderful promise of a future of freedom
that was made to black people by emancipation was broken. It was a promise that African Americans could conduct their daily lives with the assurance that their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195093437
• ISBN13: 9780195093438
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.8" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12