Henry Louis Gates Jr & Paula Kerger on Reconstruction: America After the Civil War | SXSW EDU 

PBS deserves a great deal of credit for educating those who seek truth and knowledge of real American history. You don't even have to have cable. How cool is that!

This is the history that needs to be taught in schools. I’m sure every country has a “true story”

I feel so proud when professor gates teach about our history.So thank you professor

I missed “Reconstruction” when it originally aired on PBS, but after this discussion I went searching and found it on Prime Video. Now, before the election, would be a good time for a reshowing.

This was an excellent interview. I could listen to professor Gates all day.

I wish they would just call it what it is: "DECONSTRUCTION" - #ADOS! Thanks for all you do Prof Gates and PBS!

Coretta Scott King said "Freedom must be fought for in each generation"...

It's good to hear the story of slavery and reconstruction from a BLACK MAN'S perspective. Dr. Gates has done tremendously works in this regard. Kudos!!!

PBS was a staple in my home as a child. I grew up on Sesame Street and my family is from England so we were always watching English programs. Today(2020) PBS is still one of my favorites and yes at 50 I will still sit and watch Sesame Street. I have seen some of the greatest documentaries during this tumultuous time in our country. Thank you for educating me for 50 years.

My great great great grandfather is Abram Colby. My family and I are grateful for this documentary and all of Mr. Gates work.

Love listening to Dr Gates

Happy Birthday to Mr.Gates.9-16-50.WV.Love your show on PBS.

Dr. Gates and his show brought me to rediscovering PBS as an adult, years ago. I adore him and dvr his show so I don't miss a thing. I am so thankful to him for the wisdom and knowledge that he has given not only me, but anyone else who watches. It's the true history class we weren't given about America and how it came to be. Thank you Sir and may we get the pleasure of many more years of your educational expertise. ✌🏼❤🖖🏼

Watched the documentary last night and it was great . I knew all about the Reconstruction but this will be educational for all people especially White America who needs it the most to know how and why some Black folks are still struggling to this very day and yet they have the nerve to look at blacks as less than when they caused 97% of the problems Black folks have .

Dear Sir, Professor Gates, YOU are the gift! 🙂

It took me 10 years to finally sit down and watch the movie Amistad and i cried.

Very inspiring, insightful and interesting.

"Of course he has one more thing to say". YES, PLEASE!!! I could listen to him alllll day! Mr. Gates would be at the top of my wishlist, dinner party guest list!!

Reconstruction A.K.A "Yea sike we not giving y'all shit." Reconstruction was the reworking and fine tuning of future oppressive practices.

I enjoy Henry Gates lectures and learn alot

He inadvertently gave the audience a backhanded compliment by saying they all got their jobs because of affirmative action.

Awesomeness! Yay Teachers !!!!

I pray Dr Henry Gates gets the Nobel Peace Prize soon or whenever it's available for history contributions. God grant Dr H Gates His favor and protection from this day forward

I'll be watching.

I like them to do an episode of Finding Your Roots of the host, that would be fascinating

This is amazing I can't wait to see this💯💜❤️🤎💎💎💎💎💎💎 #pbs thank you 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎

Slavery never ended it just evolve period

Thank you Dr. Gates! Your works are always interesting- sometimes history hurts but it also has the power to heal.

The reminder is set.

This blessed my spirit

Henry Lewis Gates Jr. You are one of my favorite people because I see the psychologically brilliant work you do within the minds of so many. You have an uncanny ability to cause a mental evolution withtin the hearts and minds of those who are blessed to have you do their family tree through a journey that frees and unites the heart and mind of not only the guest but all of us! You take take us along on the Journey with you! Youbmay not be aware but there is a deep dark anti- human movement, being propagated, mostly by the extreme left, but there are some rightbtoo.. You may not be aware of this or maybe you dont believe that this could really be happening? I believe and love what you teach and know it to be true history, but I am not sure if you realize that there is a facade and false narrative being mastered behind the Curtain.there are people from the right as well but the majority of the leaders are from the left and they use propaganda and race politics and planned disaster and planned trajedies to control the masses. I was a very politically active democrat for years, until I stumbled upon some dark secrets and crimes against minorities and when I tried to expose it I was terrorized and silenced. I have lost 3 friends now, I have lost 3 friends now, from "Suicide?" In the back of the head? They were also trying expose it. Anyway, God bless You! I come from a mixed family and when I say mixed I mean really really mixed and I absolutely adore your work! I am looking forward to watching your movie.

Can we really work together like that, easy said than done, and where do we began to heal, those who are in the heat of the battle.

HLG is a gentleman and a scholar,he is very much classy and smart

Great idea I will be sure to watch.

so educating

And my correction he went to Yale he just said it .i think 🤔 Harvard too ? I could listen to him day and night he’s so informative I wish I knew him personally .

THANK YOU

Fantastic to learn of True American History! So interesting that I had to listen to the very end. Let's hope that the black people can take pride in their History and the white ones learn what really took place in the USA. Thanks for this wonderful conversation.

Excellent, thank you!

Amazing how sooooo much history has been dismissed and literally destroyed!

What a nice man! Wish I could chat with him for an hour.

In 1979 the company I was working for required all alerts employees to watch a movie “you are who you are because of where you were when. It was a very enlightening movie and perspective, this is also taught in politics and in management there’s no way around it. As we have seen in our country and all over the world you cannot force people to change their values it doesn’t matter who you are or anything you cannot force people to change their beliefs. THIS IS SAD.

During reconstruction Joseph Rainey was the first African American Congressman from South Carolina's 1st District. Many of the Southern states during the period from 1870-1879 had African American representatives. Illinois was the only Northern state that had African American representatives, the first Oscar De Priest in 1929-1932, New York not until 1945, Michagin 1973. Why did it take decades longer for African American's to become represantatives in the north?

Love Finding your Roots ... I wish he could help me.

Has PBS done a documentary on the UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy)? Just curious, my mind was blown when an older friend mentioned the heavy influence they have over what taught in schools and such.

Knowledgeable 🤗👏👏👏🙌❤️

What a WONDERFUL PROGRAM! I heard SO many of my personal beliefs echoed here. Raised in a all white suburb of Detroit during the fifties and 60’s. With many cross cultural and racial relationships due to my family’s well known business in downtown Detroit. I have still many deep feelings about the riots of the sixties and lost opportunities for everyone black and white. Thank you once again for an exceptional program. Oh, and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE Dr. Henry Louis Gates and all his programs-he is just lovely!!

I would love to have a discussion with Dr. Gates and I believe it would be very informative to both of us but he seems quick to label people based on beliefs that he mistakenly assigns to ideological stereotypes. He doesn't seem to understand that principles and values can exist independent of general sets of beliefs which may often exist concurrently, but are not co-dependent. These generalizations are the primary impediment to honest and meaningful dialogues which he often states are needed to heal the past and move forward toward a cooperative and productive future.

MacArthur Laureate Rhiannon Giddens wrote two songs that address these themes. Listen to Build A House( accompanied by YoYo Ma) and Cry No More (with the Metropolitan Opera’s choir for the response to her calls). The MacArthur foundation called Rhiannon the archaeologist of African American music.

Henry Louis Gates Jr & Paula Kerger, in reference to your audience I wish to tell you that I live in UK, have no links to the USA, I am white and not a student or teacher, apparently I am not your demo-graph from what you were saying and the purpose of these documentaries and yet, I watch your documentaries daily. This is a humanist subject and like the Holocaust (that I also study) understanding how this could happen, how anyone could generalise, oppress and hurt others is beyond me. The psychology of the abusers in these situations interests me, and the psychology of those who endured daily suffering in the face of futility.

"Did they have voter id?" "Hahaha yea, if you had white skin you could vote, if you had black skin, you couldn't." 😢

I learned about reconstruction from a white man teaching a text book (presumably written by predominantly whites) in a predominantly white private school and I would say it was taught very well. I don't know what is being taught in public schools but I can attest that at some schools it is being taught adequately and accurately.

Someone on the panel mentioned that during Reconstruction, 10 out of 11 ex-Confederate states gave Black men the right to vote. Which was the state that didn't?

What? no books by Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams?

American history is a pure nightmare! I wish more AAs who now know their roots can begin to seriously think of coming back home here in Africa. It will not be easier when you come to Africa but you will slowly integrate and make a decent living. God bless.

Or I wish I could of been one ☝️ of the many students that had him for a professor 👨🏽‍🏫

Why is #Dr.CLAUDEANDERSEN'S work is not in ALL classrooms across America.

PAINFUL HURT UNFORGIVEABLE UNFORGETABLE BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE WHAT YOU SEE WITH YOUR OWN TWO EYES

Minutes 34 to 36:30!

Why does Paula and Skip got that Snoop Dogg/Martha Stewart Vibe? 🤭

We voted this time Nov. 3rd 2020 got rid of BABY 45 TRUMP....ADOS!..ASE'

Black Rose by The Product G & B

We were already all those tradesmen. Gates

Vote for who? Vote for people that lie to us and have no intention on fulfilling their promises? Vote for people that do the bidding of their doners and not the people that voted them in office?

Skip “the truth” Gates 🤣🤣🤣

The part about the Reconstruction after the Civil War and Trumps wanting to roll back programs….needs to be more publicized….TODAY 2022

#ADOS #Tangibles2020 #CutTheCheck

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." Joseph Stalin

Damn ! We are not all immigrants!

As a person of color, this material is not being taught in the average school and I taught for 11 years and black history week was used but we need to teach American History .If we don't we are going to have some type of reckoning. What that will be I don't know. it won't be good. WE are in the middle of that now.I don't want our kids white and black to suffer from what we refuse to fix now. JUST TELL AND TEACH TRUE HISTORY.

6:45 I doubt it Mr. Gates, " Everybody sleeping with everyone else", implies voluntary action BUT Was it?

Not only do we see each other get murdered our children see it too

We are not all immigrants. Black people have been on this continent for thousands of years. Within the context of your conversation, your statement is inaccurate.👎

That is how they see us how they really are rapist murderers,liers thieves.Just love to treat spiritual human beings ENHUMANE.WE ARE PEACEABLE.

Ulysses S. Grant, Republican.

The lies these people are saying with a straight face is astonishing.

Great king 👑🙏🏾🙏🏾wonderful work our black history and white history is. stored in heaven a waiting the end of time and 🙏🏾🙏🏾📖📖👑👑🕯🕯🕯judgment day.thats where the 😈😈♀️♀️devil people will🔥meet there acception and rejection in to the lord kingdom and 🔥🔥🔥🔥eternal hell and their famelys.⚰😷😷😷👽👽

Rhia

The TEACHERS NEED TO BE RETRAINED

Black men voted more percentage wise back then than now

So we just gonna pretend like that scarf is okay?

Black History is 365 days EVERYDAY

"Informed" votes. Know what you are voting for- make correlations between politicians, those who sponsor them (big business and there interest), policies (agendas) they are for, and how it all effects your Black American self. We have to understand economics in this capitalistic society. No more voting for politicians based on color, or party. Vote for politicians that are going to acknowledge the condition of the black community and DO SOMETHING about it. If no one, NO VOTE!

ADMITTING TO SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES...WTF

Vote is a game we should have never played.We died for nothing

Yahweh is the only CREATOR,MASTER.Trust in YAH only not man.

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MALCOM X AND MLK WOULD OF CALLED OUT GATES AND DINOUNSE HIM.

The Hustler is at it again! They should give this guy the Al Sharpton award for the Best Hustler. I guess he figured out that he couldn't make money on the true narrative so he took the Alex Haley route!

Biden threw out trumps 1776 educational project.

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Do most blacks love and miss mother Africa?

It was not an alt right rollback. That is a lie. It was a democrat rollback

Ya so what else is missing from a 1950's gradeschool education - and what is being taught in 2023? LMTY not everything that should be taught. So that's why we got to segregate American and World history? SMH

Dr. Gates what is that thing your wearing.

Louse Gates -- the entitled liberal academician.. lives in the Ivory Tower now.

Strange Fruit " hanging from that tree . Look at the supposed gentlemanwearing their fineryandtophatted .The completixityof all of us human beings is almost inhumanly ireconciliable with human thought . i will never understand how people cando things I would almost certainly never do ! IwonderifIhad been bred as a Southern gentleman would I too have been willing to see blacks as only property,human chattel not worthy of respect . culturation, socializationis a truly scary thing.Read about the Swedish experiment with "prisoners" and"caretakers "Is it possible that our complexity makes us more ....than animals .More brainy but also capable of being more cruel andsick . How is itDonald trumps still exist ? I like many blacks find our history compelling but have readcountless books on jewish History , both world wars several on treblinka,Auschwitz but almost nothing about slavery .I know black biographies but have never immersed myself in some of ourpainful legacy .REading aboutthe Omaha riots has openedme up to the great strides we have made when given thechance but also allowed me to see the whole in its American historical context . Into the flames (of history ,our families , our regions ) wemust all gotofully feel ourselves and legacy .Self- understanding ius a great value .Wecanonly know and feel through our limited brains but experience and our reaction toois a valuable knowledge. I dontthinkanyonemomenttells us the truth . Murderes ,torturers and rapists are often loving sons , fathers husbands . noonesaid understanding was easy oreven acessible tohumans. Phenomenolgy and o...aside I will simply do my duty to my self and forbearers !

Discussing RACISM IS NOT FUN

60% of Yale students polled said the constitution should be abolished