AFAM 162: African American History: From Emancipation to the Present (Spring 2010, Open Yale Courses): Lecture 03

AFAM 162: African American History: From Emancipation to the Present

Lecture 03 - Reconstruction. Between 1865 and 1877, several plans were developed by which the Confederate states could be readmitted to the Union and the residents of the states given full citizenship rights. It was far from clear, however, which plan would do a better job maintaining the social peace and protecting African Americans' ability to earn a wage, raise a family, own land, and exercise the right to vote. In this lecture, Professor Holloway outlines the contours of the Ten Percent Plan, Presidential Reconstruction, and Radical Reconstruction, and he explains how these plans embraced a variety of approaches to reuniting the disparate states. As Professor Holloway explains, Reconstruction greatly enhanced the rights of African Americans, while also circumscribing their lives by new political, economic, and social initiatives. (from oyc.yale.edu)

Lecture 03 - Reconstruction

Time	Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00]	1. Introduction: The Reconstruction Era
[00:02:12]	2. Chronology of the Reconstruction Era
[00:06:37]	3. A Narrative Account of the Reconstruction Era
[00:20:12]	4. 1865: The Establishment of Black Codes
[00:26:14]	5. Sharecropping: A New Labor System
[00:30:04]	6. The Freedmen's Bureau