Reconstruction era

What were the differing meanings of "work" in the south after emancipation? 2. The issue of reparations for the unpaid labor of the enslaved has surfaced periodically since general emancipation in 1865. When was pressure first organized? By whom? 3. What are the origins of the phrase "forty acres and a mule'? 4. What role did violence play during the era of Reconstruction? 5. At the turn of the twentieth century black people participated in the workforce at higher rates than whites. Where did the differences lie? 6. In what ways did the emphases and educational preferences of Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915) differ from those of W.E.B. Du Bois (1868 - 1963)? In what ways were they similar? 7. Why was the age of segregation also the golden age of Black business? 8. What were poll taxes? How did they discourage poor people from voting?