1. The Age of Reaction An Introduction in Images

2. EMANCIPATION

3. Thomas Nast’s depiction of emancipation at the end of the Civil War envisions the future of free blacks in the U.S. and contrasts it with various cruelties of the institution of slavery.

5. Images of Jim Crow The name “Jim Crow” was applied to the culture and laws of segregation in the United States. After slavery and until 1964, when the Civil Rights Act overturned it, the segregation of African Americans governed nearly every aspect of American life. The term “Jim Crow” comes from the tradition of blackface minstrelsy, an often distorted representation of African American song and dance.

11. Labor in the Age of Reaction

15. Education in the Reconstruction South

25. Politics in the Age of Reaction

31. Racial Violence

42. Surviving and Prospering