"[D]rawing on her book, #ISawDeathComing, Professor #KidadaEWilliams explores African Americans’ accounts of the other war, the one white southerners waged on Black families. Survivors’ searing recollections of the war after the Civil War bring to light the ways that the revolutionary experiment of #Reconstruction did not just fail, as so many of us have been taught, but was violently overthrown and abandoned."

https://youtu.be/rlzEH9JYoro
#BlackHistory #USHistory #KuKluxKlan #KKK #KlanTerror #books

"My subjects don't have the same language of #trauma that we use today, but they are articulating being completely changed by what happened to them in these attacks."

#KidadaEWilliams talks about writing and teaching #BlackHistory, and about her new book #ISawDeathComing: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against #Reconstruction

https://newbooksnetwork.com/i-saw-death-coming

#ReconstructionEra #KuKluxKlan #KKK #KlanTerror #KlanHearings #BlackStudies #USHistory #AmericanHistory #WhiteSupremacy #books

"..Williams offers a revelatory and, in some cases, minute-by-minute record of nighttime raids and #KuKluxKlan strikes. And she deploys cutting-edge scholarship on trauma to consider how the effects of these attacks would linger for decades--indeed, generations--to come."

#KidadaEWilliams discusses her book "#ISawDeathComing: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against #Reconstruction."

https://newbooksnetwork.com/i-saw-death-coming-2

#ReconstructionEra #KlanTerror #KlanHearings #BlackHistory #books