Eric Foner: 1866: The Birth of Civil Rights

Name: Eric Foner: 1866: The Birth of Civil Rights
Uploaded: 2011-08-23T19:39:24+00:00
Duration: 4 min 4 s
Channel: The Gilder Lehrman Institute
Description: Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, explains how the legal status of former slaves after the Civil War helped to define citizenship in the United States. He looks at the struggle to define the role of former slaves in society, and how those decisions affect us today.

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, explains how the legal status of former slaves after the Civil War helped to define citizenship in the United States.  He looks at the struggle to define the role of former slaves in society, and how those decisions affect us today.