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Description: Freedom's School is a historical fiction picture book that describes enslaved African Americans were barred from and did not have educational opportunities before the Emancipation Proclamation. Upon the Reconstruction era, however newly freed African Americans build a school for their children to learn. The book demonstrates the sacrifices and obstacles the children face to receive an education such as their parents having to work their land themselves without the assistance of their children, a disparity of resources including heating and teachers, and the dangers of walking to school. The story represents the prejudice and racial hatred that persisted during the Reconstruction era with the rocks thrown at the children walking to school and the burning down of their school. The book ends, however, with the rebuilding of the school and teaching of the children illustrating African Americans' resilience and hope for equality in the future.
APA Citation: Cline-Ransome, L. (2015). Freedom's School. Jump At The Sun.

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Description: The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch is a non-fiction picture book biography that provides readers with an in-depth look at the Reconstruction period through the life of one of the first African-American congressmen. Through documenting John Roy Lynch's life, readers learn of the U.S. laws and events that impacted and shaped John Roy Lynch and the country including chattel slavery, partus sequitur ventrem, the election of President Abraham Lincoln, the cause and efforts of the civil war, the Emancipation Proclamation that freed slaves, the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, Jim Crow laws, the white terrorist group; the Ku Klux Klan,  and much more. Readers learn of this period in U.S. history through reading how John Roy Lynch was born a slave in Mississippi, later appointed to serve as a justice of the peace, and eventually elected into the United States Congress. Readers can learn more as well in the historical notes and timeline featured in the backmatter of the book.
APA Citation: Barton, C. (2015). The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers.

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Description: The Crow is a historical fiction chapter book depicting the real-life events that took place during 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina. The book takes place during the Reconstruction era, one generation from slavery, and depicts the emancipated, but disfranchised and marginalized African Americans in Wilmington. The book documents the events leading up to the massacre including aggression and force to exclude African American voters from voting in the election. The narrative continues by illustrating the Democratic white supremacists illegally seizing power from the elected government-including African Americans- running officials out of the city, and killing many African Americans in widespread attacks. The book also includes the burning of the Wilmington newspaper, “The Daily Record,” the only black daily newspaper in the country for which the protagonist's father works.
APA Citation: Wright, B. (2013). Crow. New York: Scholastic.

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 I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl

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 I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl

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Description:  I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl is historical fiction written in the form of diary entries. The book documents Patsy's thoughts and feelings after slavery has been abolished following the Civil War. Readers learn the treatment of African Americans during slavery such as it was illegal to teach slaves to read and write. Patsy, however, risked great punishments too. The book demonstrates the importance of education to African Americans' freedom as Patsy uses her knowledge to teach and develop the other newly freed enslaved people's literacy. The book shares the less told stories and experiences of African Americans' lives after the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation.
APA Citation: Hansen, J. (2011). I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl. New York: Scholastic.

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Description: Ellen's Broom is a historical fiction picture book depicting the end of slavery and beginning of the Reconstruction period. The book depicts the progress of the Reconstruction era through Ellen's parent process of being legally married. Readers learn enslaved people were not allowed to be married; and therefore, only option was to have a "broom wedding." These marriages were not considered by slaveowners; and therefore, could result in forced separations of marriages and families. Now after the Civil War, her parents have the right to go to a Freedman’s Bureau and have their marriage legally recognized. This book highlights the progress of African American rights during the Reconstruction period as well as African Americans' resilience and traditions from slavery that they remember and help carry them on.
APA Citation: Starling Lyons, K. (2012). Ellen's Broom. G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers.

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Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow

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Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow

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Description: Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow is a non-fiction text for children that span America's history from 1861 to 1915 drawing parallels with today. The book documents the Civil War, Emancipation, destruction of slavery, and the struggle for rights and reunion through real-life accounts.
Notable figures mentioned include Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Adams, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Jacobs, Charlotte Forten, and W.E.B. Du Bois. The resilience of African American in such times of racial unrest are examined thoroughly. Ultimately, the material discusses America's challenge to create a society in which black and white citizens could, after a violent civil war, find peace without new lines of inequality and separation being drawn.
APA Citation: Gates, H. L., & Bolden, T. (2019). Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow. New York: Scholastic Focus.