![]() ![]() ![]() “It is, in large part,” Craven mocked, “only the expression of a Negro’s bitterness against the injustice of slavery and racial prejudice. Du Bois wrote an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880. Craven charged that Du Bois wrote “Black Reconstruction” out of a festering in his soul rather than from his graduate training at the University of Berlin and at Harvard, and his authorship of more than a dozen previous books. Echoing Dunning School sentiments, University of Chicago historian Avery Craven issued an unvarnished denouncement of Du Bois’s book in January 1936. This conservative school of thought turned out shoddy studies that labeled the Reconstruction era a “tragedy” that threatened white supremacy by elevating Black Americans to full citizenship. ![]() In those years, Columbia University professor William Dunning and his followers dominated thinking on Reconstruction. Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward a History of the Part which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. Immediately after its publication, the book was mostly disdained or simply ignored. An edition of Black reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (1935) Black reconstruction in America an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880 College ed. Today, “Black Reconstruction” is a must-read for scholars in the fields of history, literature, education, political theory, law and conflict studies. ![]()
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