Henry Louis Gates Jr., professor at Harvard University, director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, author of Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (Penguin Press, 2019) and Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Nonfiction, 2019) turns his attention to the post-Civil War Reconstruction era and the backlash to emancipation.