Reconstruction: A Timeline of the Post-Civil War Era
For a 14-year period, the U.S. government took steps to try and integrate the nation s newly freed Black population into society.
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Recently freed African Americans receive rations. Credit: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images
For a 14-year period, the U.S. government took steps to try and integrate the nation s newly freed Black population into society.
Between 1863 and 1877, the U.S. government undertook the task of integrating nearly four million formerly enslaved people into society after the Civil War bitterly divided the country over the issue of slavery. A white slaveholding south that had built its economy and culture on slave labor was now forced by its defeat in a war that claimed 620,000 lives to change its economic, political and social relations with African Americans.
Bills would mandate uniform computer science education across the state By Anthony Warren | January 22, 2021 at 1:54 PM CST - Updated January 22 at 3:30 PM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Two bills introduced this week in the Mississippi State Legislature promise to give the state’s more than 442,000 public school students a leg up in competing for jobs in the 21st century.
The bills are S.B. 2678 and H.B. 633, both known as the “Computer Science and Cyber Education Equality Acts,” would mandate the state Department of Education to implement mandatory K-12 computer science curriculums in all K-12 schools across the state.
The bills would bring classroom instruction of computer science to all public school students across the state, according to C Spire officials. C Spire helped lawmakers craft the legislation.