March 2: The new session of Congress begins to pass additional reconstruction laws, overriding President Johnson's vetoes and beginning a more hard-line attitude toward the South. Known as Radical ...

NOW that the armistice has been signed and the prospect of peace in the near future is happily assured, it is inevitable that the whole nation should be impatient to get back to its normal ...

So the first real impulse for black education comes ... New Orleans has a few desegregated schools for a brief time during Reconstruction, but nobody makes it work in the rural parishes.