The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction
Written by Daniel Brook
Narrated by David Sadzin
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In some areas, this coalition proved remarkably successful. Activists peacefully integrated the streetcars of Charleston and New Orleans for decades and, for a time, even the New Orleans public schools and the University of South Carolina were educating students of all backgrounds side by side. Tragically, the achievements of this movement were ultimately swept away by a violent political backlash and expunged from the history books, culminating in the Jim Crow laws that would legalize segregation for a half century and usher in the binary racial regime that rules us to this day.
Daniel Brook
Daniel Brook is a journalist whose writing has appeared in Harper’s, Dissent, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Boston Globe, among other publications. Brook was a finalist in the 2003 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists and won the 2000 Rolling Stone College Journalist Competition while a student at Yale. He is the author of The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America. He lives in Philadelphia.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent, highly recommend. Everyone should read this book... Nearly everyone would learn something because we for sure do not learn in high school about reconstruction as it truly happened.Audiobook note :excellent narrator