Summary: Page May chats with Nathan Ryan of Grassroots Collaborative, and Debbie Southorn of American Friends Service Committee - Chicago about the book Black Reconstruction in America: 1860 - 1880, the most important book we think you'll ever have to read! Assigned as essential reading to many local, Chicago organizers by long-time Chicago organizer and prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba, Black Reconstruction details the role that Black people played in reconstruction after the Civil War, when Black people were freed from slavery and began reconstructing American society.
