This eye-opening documentary from the PBS "American Experience" series takes a look at the arduous times that lay ahead of the country in the days just before and the years that followed the end of the Civil War. Focusing on the time period between 1863 and 1877, the program examines a country about to enter what Lincoln called a "Reconstruction" - a long road toward a better, more equitable United States. However, it would be a treacherous path, one fraught with many difficulties, among them opponents intent on maintaining what they viewed as a racial hierarchy ordained by God and willing to kill to keep it.
This eye-opening documentary from the PBS "American Experience" series takes a look at the arduous times that lay ahead of the country in the days just before and the years that followed the end of the Civil War. Focusing on the time period between 1863 and 1877, the program examines a country about to enter what Lincoln called a "Reconstruction" - a long road toward a better, more equitable United States. However, it would be a treacherous path, one fraught with many difficulties, among them opponents intent on maintaining what they viewed as a racial hierarchy ordained by God and willing to kill to keep it.
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