Thanks for reading. I am currently reading

Black Reconstruction written by W.E.B. Du Bois. Some of it is available for free online:

https://books.google.com.pr/books/about/Black_Reconstruction_in_America_1860_188.html?id=Nt5mglDCNHEC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

This period was so pivotal to our national conversation because it explains why, sociopolitically after the Civil War was over, why Jim Crow became the law of the land, and what it was in response to.

Too often we skip this stage and only focus on before or after. I'm going to keep doing my research. My mom told me there was a massacre in Metairie, Louisiana, not too far from my cousin's house. So, that's where my research will head this month.