Democracy Rising: South Carolina and the Fight for Black Equality Since 1865 - Hardcover

by Peter F. Lau (Author)

Considered by many historians to be the birthplace of the Confederacy, South Carolina experienced one of the longest and most turbulent Reconstruction periods of all the southern states. After the Civil War, white supremacist leadership in the state fiercely resisted the efforts of freed slaves to secure full citizenship rights and to remake society based upon an expansive vision of freedom forged in slavery and the crucible of war. Despite numerous obstacles, African Americans achieved remarkab

Author Biography

Peter F. Lau, dean of students at The Wheeler School in Providence, Rhode Island, is the editor of Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy.