This article is from Newsela and is called Presidential and Radical Reconstruction after the U.S. Civil War. In this article it talks about the time after the Civil War and of African- American men going to the polls to vote. https://newsela.com/read/lib-ushistory-reconstruction/id/29057/

This article is also from Newsela and is called Black Leaders During Reconstruction. It is a 7th grade level article and talks about what was happening during Reconstruction. This article also talks about some opposition to Andrew Johnson’s plans and how it lead to the “black codes”.  https://newsela.com/read/lib-history-black-leaders-reconstruction/id/29612

This article is called Reconstruction: a time of political and social upheaval in America. It is also a 7th grade level article. This article talks about the step to step process that Johnson wanted to have to have the South come back into the union.  https://newsela.com/read/gl-history-reconstruction/id/22889