American Experience; Second Interview with Edward L. Ayers, Historian, University of Virginia, part 2 of 3 : Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
Description:
In the tumultuous years after the Civil War (1863-77), America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and how to bring former slaves into the life of the country. Ayers talks about the growth of the Ku Klux Klan, federal investigation of the Klan, 1875 violence in Mississippi and intimidation of black voters, Colfax Massacre, the Lost Cause.
