St. Louis University was set to apologize for enslaving people. Hours before the ceremony, a group of descendants of Black ...

Although this agency was short-lived — lasting from 1865 until 1872 — its impact ... By June of that year, around 40,000 Black people had been settled on the land set aside for them through ...

Following Lincoln’s assassination on April 9, 1865, his successor ... The new state governments passed a series of Black Codes, designed to keep the former slave poor, stuck at the bottom ...

The Ku Klux Klan was a racist group established by people ... to see black people remain as enslaved people. It began in the southern states at the end of the American Civil War in 1865.