Description: "This book tells the story of racial integration at the United States Military Academy after the Civil War and spotlights the social environment and cultural currents that led to its failure"--
Review Quotes:
Race, Politics, and Reconstruction is an excellent perspective on Reconstruction's failure . . . The collected works successfully demonstrate the irreconcilable social chasm of the time, wherein the seemingly assured fulfillment of the founders' promise was lost after the disappearance of political will amid the lingering animosities left by the Civil War.
--The Journal of African American History