The story of Reconstruction 

I'm very fortunate to have had a great father who told me dozens of stories like this. If people new the true American history, they would be amazed.He was Native American..Miss you Daddy. 🌎

I work with one of Robert Smalls' great- great granddaughters. She shared this info about him during Black History Month at our job back in Feb. What a rich & amazing history! As a Southern, Black woman born & raised I'm very proud of my heritage, of our people as whole. Yet I'm still confused about why Black folks still must fight extremely hard for our basic human rights. To be hated, misrepresented & mistreated because of the color of our skin = to be Black in America. 😢

And so people that I work with, stand in line to vote with, people that interview me for jobs, cops, politicians, believe all the false negative things that American history has taught them about black Americans.

Black History is American History spread the word! #BlackHistoryIsNotAMyth

You guys should read The half thats never been told. It goes into detail about how the economy that slavery as an institution produced was worth more than EVERY OTHER INDUSTRY IN THE COUNTRY COMBINED. How Jp morgan chase banks would issue property insurance policies on our enslaved ancestors, how the economy OF THE NORTH was upheld by it too.

My teacher is making us watch this, so here I am

Incredible piece CBS, thank you

ADOS IN THIS 21 CENTURY, THE TIME IS DUE

Tell me why Robert Smalls' story has never been made into a movie? It's weird that it hasn't.

Wow. I need to study this part of American history. I was never taught this. Now I want to know more. By far one of the best pieces of history. Thank you for making this video Sunday Morning.

I have so much Respect for all the Old Black People that still lives Today cause what all they been through from the pass.

I would like to have that picture on my wall in my library

SO So Good! An Amazing piece of history that far too little know about including ME! Thanks Dr. Gates & CBS for this!

I love Henry Louis Gates work.

I was taught that reconstruction was attempted, but it didn't really work very well. That's the jest of what I was taught in American History class. None of these men's names were mentioned. America has got to grow up and move past its racism. People are people, regardless the color of their skin, of the circumstances they are born into.

Quarantine learning, Our online class showed this as part of American history topic on reconstruction & civil war.

This is a part of American History and yet I’ve never heard of them.

Any accomplishments made by African-Americans after slavery were, taken down ,rewritten in books and retaught in schools that.the Reconstruction era was a failure, for African Americans and the United States as a whole. I have always felt that in the schools there should be two books taught for history. One with white American History. and one with African American history. History focuses too much on the slavery era. It should focus more on the accomplishments of African Americans that came after slavery was abolished. The Confederates lost the civil war, But they rewrote history....

History depends on where one hears it. I was taught Reconstruction was repealed after Lincoln's death.

This video makes me sad. Although it shows that African Americans made huge strides by getting elected into gov't and being able to vote, over 150 years later it is still a struggle. We are still having our voting rights stripped from us through corrupt gerrymandering and voting restrictions which is the new version of Jim Crow. It is not as blatantly racist, but it is still just as egregious.

The lies. The lies. Make America what again? GTOH....

So basically we need to throw the entire history, that we were taught, IN THE TRASH! 😭😷😷😬 AMERICA THE SHREWD..

Amazing crazy story !!! I didn't know all this !!! The American educational system makes me cry

It's Gonna take a Long Time to Heal this Country

Put a movie together!

WOW!!!! This was educational, informative & brutally honetly!

We need another reconstruction.

Don't depend on the oppressor to educate our people.

Fascinating and and a deeply informative post 🤭😍😍🙌🏾

I am currently studying the Stock and currency markets and I have always equated all systems to each other in one way or another ... And on the stock charts when a stock or currency is trending a break out has to form once a stock has either been overbought and oversold and this break outs signals a new trend is on the horizon.. What Mr Smalls did was created a break out and changed the trend... That takes so much courage and people that break free from what's expected is amazing..

This is amazing! I really wish there were more stories like this, people NEED to know and not just stereotype one another.

I never new that.

WOW!! Great information

Gotta love Mo Rocca

Lawrence Otis Graham is on my reading list for sure! 😍

Compliments of the work ADOS is putting in.

WoW how things are twisted.....

This is such a great and amazing program

Time and time again this country has proved that this is not *our* rest.

any body here for school?

Challenge the false narrative!

Deuteronomy 28:15-68

Very very nice......

Amazing

Rutherford-Hayes Compromise was struck on February 26, 1877. This was the exact date that Master Fard Muhammad, the Patriarch of the Nation of Islam and Teacher of the Hon Elijah Muhammad. The Hon Elijah Muhammad would teach Min Malcolm X and the Hon Min Louis Farrakhan.

Reparations now

Life was brutal for blacks back then lynchings whippings being burned alive but America always try to sweep this part of history under the rug

I forgot to watch the second half of the documentary on PBS. Does anyone know where to find it.

Read it long ago. But still amazing

[ 4:10 ] Am I the only one who noticed Donald Trump and Herman Cain? Was this when America was great?

I love black history my goal learn the ones my teachers never taught me. I learned about Black history when I was in the 3rd back in the early 00s. So my goal study about black history write plays about black history which is very important

You're killing me, Smalls!

my family has many stories as well and we were always "freemen" never enslaved...in fact some owned slaves themselves and were some of the largest landowners this side of the Mississippi....but you'll never hear that though

The only thing I got from this video is that dependent on how certain topics are viewed currently, is how people (mostly children) are taught. That's highly disturbing. You can't censor or skew facts.

I h8 skool

okay, this video is wow. but also, is that the lady from that one vine???????????

now it's time to cut the check... or God will continue to judge this country... #ADOS #Tangibles2020

If Lincoln had not been assassinated, reconstruction would not have ended as soon as it did. Reconstruct required a good 30 years with military stationed in the South to help further integrate African Americans and with federal laws that actually served African Americans to buy land and become entrepreneurial. It’s a tragedy it ended so prematurely.

If it weren’t for the slavers, the profound consciousness of racism between Black and White, would not exist. How could any so-called merciful deity sit idle and gaze upon such human atrocities. What is the real meaning of life?!

For more about Robert Smalls' military actions during the Civil War, check out History Guy's video on Smalls: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A4Jqp3REwrw.html

Why at the 1:50 mark, do they show the Rebel States as Red States ? When it was the other way around.

Sooo sad ...vengeance is mine said ......Jehovah,......we alllll rep what we sow

The failure to continue reconstruction and the falling back into segregation, destroyed progress in America for 90 years. The south was especially held back by segregation. It's only been 50+ years since segregation ended and with it progress began to happen in the South. All the major development in the south happened since then. All the manufacturing jobs and financial and technical jobs that came to the south came after the end of segregation. The real damage done though was to the psyche of southerners and others who grew up in a country with segregation for those 90 years. The horrific advancement of the Lost Cause brainwashing of southerners in regards to the Civil War has held back our country. Even today many people hold false views in regards to the Civil War and the period of segregation. By allowing the south to come back without any accountability or enforcement of the 14th amendment for 90 years, we created generations of bigots and racists. Ignorance about the Civil War and the damage it did. Andrew Johnson's pardoning of Civil War veterans from their crime of treason is hidden from view. These statues to those traitors put up in the public square during segregation are finally coming down but some people view that as trying to deny history. No. It isn't. It's putting history back in its place. Treason. Destruction. Hundreds of thousands of deaths. The Civil War wasn't a friendly fight between brothers. It was a battle for the soul of a nation. Its outcome decided our future. Without the defeat of the treason of the Confederacy there would be no United States of America as we know it. That has to be recognized. Why it occurred must be understood accurately. Because of that we need a reeducation of southerners. Of confederate flag waving numskulls. To finally once and for all end that war and to create a country of full equality and freedom. A country of progress. And the first step needs to be ridding ourselves of the false king in the White House. To end this red hat wearing nightmare. To knock some sense into those who think bigotry and racism is acceptable in our country at this time. It is not. It is not. And those that waved that flag of bigotry 150+ years ago were not heroes. They were wrong. And they did damage to this country.

Movie please !!!!!

we watching in history class

Who’s here because of school?? Corona time

Please add captions. Thanks.

6:36 What I was taught in Florida high school in 2004 3:47 What I was taught in college in 2008 15 years later a Florida Governor who went through same colleges and high schools I did (and same age) is putting forth bills to block books about this time period. Wow.

Hiram Revels is my blood ancestor.

Unfortunately, the 1877 Republican-Democrat Compromise brought Reconstruction to an end. The Compromise opened the doors of Jim Crow. Smh

No shade but I'm shocked people didn't know this. I did. Wikipedia is actually a GREAT SOURCE. Mr. Robert Smalls also has the distinction of introducing the first bill ever to make schools a PUBLIC entity paid for by public tax dollars. He introduced this bill in the S.C. legislature. He is partly responsible for what we Known know as Public Schools

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Also, Google "Israel Hill"

I despise that word African American. I'm not African I'm a black American

I find it funny that Eric Foner stated that the slaves were sophisticated because they had been living in American society. SMH. True historians know that civilization, art, and culture, including earths best natural resources all come from Africa. Dehumanizing people gives the world the perception that's it's ok to take whatever, and whomever you want.

here bc of school covid partiee babeey

This is why true history needs to be told then maybe people will kind of understand exactly why america owes ADOS. Not "black people" but ADOS reparations.

# important history

Reconstruction was crushed because the Right wing in that period was opposed to democratization

Let's make America Great Again for all people, and let's not tolerate treason in any shape, form or fashion. I want a Robert smalls T-shirt now!!! I 1st learned of him years ago on the documentary "Slavery And The Making Of America", He's one of my greatest hero's.

Robert Smalls

I read a terrible story of many former slaves who starved to death during this time as well...

You are absolutely correct sir these people were Americans, the Aboriginal, copper colored people found here by the Europeans... this is an injustice done to a people that needs correction...We are the Desendants of these people asking for reparations...ADOS....

A movie should be made of these first black congressmen unstead of rehashing the same old stories we already know about. WS doesn't want to acknowledge these very courageous men because it defiles they notion of superiority.

the reconstruction period was a harsh one. A LOT of african americans served in congress. President Lyndon Johnson said, ''we are not going back to the reconstruction period.'' It was really bad you guys. They didn't know what they were doing.

I watched Birth of A Nation - horrible movie, but amazingly shot.

South Carolina overthrew it's own Congress.

Mess that's led to resentment strife and violence

I always knew there were many black men who were elected to congress after the war. But I didn't know about the Hayes thing. One of the reason I knew what I did was do to my parents telling the 4 of us children.

That was the time when Exslaves should have been Sticking together more .

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Why are the northern states blue while the southern are red? The north was red and the south was blue. Why change the colors? Since everyone knows what those colors means politically.

Those black brothers were heroes. They created the first interracial democracy.

Some of Youse, didn't have Dad's who had You read the Britannica encyclopedia as a child,and it shows. Relying on teachers to educate Your children still .

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Really? An 8 minute expose abt reconstruction? Stop the madness.

Our country's greatest on full display!! If we can do this at such a critical & volatile time in history we can & will survive trump!! I purposely spelled his name in lower case!

I know this will sound dumb to some people but why cant we all just get along. my family is jews look how they where treated the native Americans and black . just because we are all not the same, that what makes it wonderful because we arent

I'd say this was less about "reconstruction" and more about "postwar black integration".

Had Abraham Lincoln lived? We will never know, but the mistakes made during Reconstruction were horrible for taking an opportunity and completely blowing it. If only …