Sentence examples for Reconstruction Period from inspiring English sources

Lincoln did not live to see or to steer the Reconstruction period that followed the war.

During and after the Reconstruction period, African Americans in cities organized historical, literary, and musical societies.

The Reconstruction period ended with a protracted and bloody conflict over the question of deploying federal troops in the South.

In this latest reconstruction period, the Wilpons, father and son, hired Omar Minaya, son of Queens, who hired Willie Randolph, son of Brooklyn.

"We do know that we have taken every precaution possible to create the safest and healthiest environment at Manhattan House during this reconstruction period".

To many white Alabamians the Reconstruction period was tragic, but to most black Alabamians it was a period of opportunity and hope.

LETTER FROM WASHINGTON about the civil-rights bill, which is the first piece of civil-rights legislation to clear both houses of Congress since the Reconstruction period.

During the Reconstruction period (1865 77), through a combination of private philanthropy and federal funds, schools for blacks were inaugurated throughout the state.

But the bank's chief economist, Justin Lin, gave a largely upbeat assessment this week, saying that economic recovery will "speed up" after the post-disaster reconstruction period.

It emerged in the post-Reconstruction period, when African-Americans couldn't get burial insurance but wanted their friends and neighbors to pass on in style.

What seems to be happening is almost like a second post-Reconstruction period where a lot of the gains that we've experienced in the past several decades are met with a determination to strip opportunities and rights away.