Just Mercy

by

Bryan Stevenson

Post-Reconstruction Era Term Analysis

The post-Reconstruction era began after the withdrawal of federal authorities from Confederate states following the period of Reconstruction. During the post-Reconstruction era, confederate authorities launched retaliatory efforts to recreate the conditions of slavery through Jim Crow laws.
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Post-Reconstruction Era Term Timeline in Just Mercy

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Chapter 1: Mockingbird Players
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...describes the South’s history of hatred toward black men involved with white women. During the post-Reconstruction era, Jim Crow laws outlawed interracial relationships. Even after the U.S. nullified such “anti-miscegenation” laws... (full context)
Chapter 10: Mitigation
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...truck decorated with Confederate symbols and threatening racist bumper stickers. He explains how, since the post-Reconstruction era, confederate pride has been inseparably linked with violence toward and subordination of black people.... (full context)
Chapter 16: The Stonecatcher’s Song of Sorrow
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...the larger historical narrative of progress. The first period is slavery. The second is the post-Reconstruction era, a period of organized violence against black people that is omitted from modern discussions... (full context)