Title: Bricks without straw
Description: "Bricks Without Straw is Tourgée's fictionalized account of how Reconstruction was sabotaged. It is a chilling picture of violence against African Americans condoned, civil rights abrogated, constitutional amendments subverted, and electoral fraud institutionalized. Its plot revolves around a group of North Carolina freedpeople who strive to build new lives for themselves by buying land, marketing their own crops, setting up a church and school, and voting for politicians sympathetic to their interests, until Klan terrorism and the ascendancy of a white supremacist government reduce them to neo-slavery"--Dukeupress
Subjects: African Americans, Fiction, Freedmen, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), History, Fiction, historical, African americans, fiction, Southern states, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Freed persons, Reconstruction
Places: North Carolina, Southern States