The Civil War and the Summer of 2020 (Reconstructing America)

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword. Telling the Story: George Floyd and the Legacy of Black Truth
Preface
Introduction
Violence
	1. White Supremacy, the American Militia, and the Legacy of the Civil War Era
	2. African Americans and Native Americans in North Carolina During the Summer of 2020: The Struggle for People of Color to Find a Shared Civil War–Era Memory
	3. Witnessing Ned Scott’s Coffin: Spectacular Police Violence in the Age of Emancipation
	4. Abaline Miller and the Struggle for Justice against the Employer Police State after Slavery
Resistance
	5. From Eagle Buttons to Face Masks: The Dangers of Expressing Racial Equality Emmanuel Dabney
	6. “Give Me My Rights”: Patriotism  and Protest Among Black Civil War Soldiers and Black Lives Matter Activists Jonathan Lande
	7. A Lens Through Which We Can View Society: Sports and Race in America
	8. Slave Agency, the Emancipation Monument, and History’s Reckoning
	9. Fighting for Black Humanity: Political Action of Post-Emancipation Black Christians
	10. Jim Crow Then, Jim Crow Now: Police Violence, Tort Law, and Black Resistance in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
	11. “How wonderful a country”: Black Lives Matter and the Long History of Aboriginal Resistance
	12. Carpetbagging the Colfax Riot Marker
	13. “Moving History”: The Life and Afterlife of Louisville’s Confederate Monument
	14. Goodbye, Calhoun. What’s Next?: The Future of Charleston’s Commemorative Landscape
	15. “Back at Bragg”: Civil War Memory and the US Army
	16. There’s still no balm in Gilead: The Fatal Costs of Traumatic Memory
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index