Lecture 5. Uplift, Accommodation, and Assimilation

American History: From Emancipation to the Present (AFAM 162) In the closing decades of the 1800s, African Americans witnessed the end of Reconstruction, the Redemption of the white South, and increased threats to their political, economic, physical, and psychological wellbeing. Historians often refer to this era as the nadir, the lowest point, in the postEmancipation black experience. But, as Professor Holloway explains in this lecture, the oppressive realities of black life did not silence the most d