Why the U.S. Should Convene a 2021 Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation
Lessons from the 1871 congressional Ku Klux Klan hearings
“The truth of history may be utterly distorted and contradicted and changed to any convenient fairy tale that the master of men wish.”
W.E.B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, 1935
In 1871, in the midst of escalating racial violence that killed up to 30,000 in the post-Civil War South, Congress launched one ...
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