The Weekly Show with Jon StewartAmerica 250: History vs. Mythology with Annette Gordon-Reed and David Blight

Reconstruction Dream Shattered

23:41–24:12 · 31s

Gordon-Reed emotionally recalls finding her great-great-grandfather on an 1867 Texas voter roll—then realizing those rights would soon be ripped away.

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