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Preface and Part One, Antislavery/Antislave

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Gates, Jr., Henry Louis. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. Penguin Press, 2019. E-book.

• The preface of the text begins on page xv.

• Gates states in the preface that the title of Stony the Road is taken from a poem.

• Gates explains that he produces and hosts a television show on PBS focused on the period of Reconstruction.

• The period of Reconstruction in the United States lasted for a total of 12 years.

• Gates states that the beginning of the Redemption era occurred in 1877.

• The New Negro movement began in 1894.

• Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of the Harlem Renaissance" (xv) around 1925.

• Gates names Yale as the place where the "kernel of the idea" (xv) for Stony...

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