📲 Check out learningforjustice’s “Reconstruction: Democratic Promise — and Defeat” video and discussion toolkit at the 🔗 in our bio. #Reconstruction is often considered narrowly as a brief period between slavery and segregation. But that framing misses what mattered most: how formerly enslaved African Americans moved to define freedom on their own terms. 🎥 Watch as Hasan Kwame Jeffries and Ahmad Ward explore Reconstruction as a struggle over the meaning of freedom and #democracy. #LearningForJustice #USHistory #LFJ