Interview with Daniel Brook, author of The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction
In THE ACCIDENT OF COLOR, Daniel Brook recounts the fight for equality by the biracial free people of color in New Orleans and Charleston after the Civil War. As told by Brooks, they initially sought to maintain the rights they had before the Civil War before embracing the battle for civil rights for former slaves as well as themselves. THE ACCIDENT OF COLOR lays out the gains made by African-Americans during Reconstruction in Louisiana and South Carolina winning elected offices, passing civil rights legislation, and integrating schools. In the book he also shares the story of the rise of Jim…
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