Yale historian Jonathan Holloway continues his American history survey (AFAM 162) by tracing the collapse of Reconstruction into the era white Southerners called Redemption. He opens with Billie Holiday's recording of "Strange Fruit" before laying out the mechanisms used to strip African Americans of political power, including the revived Ku Klux Klan, gerrymandering, and poll taxes. The lecture's second half turns to lynching as a tool of racial terror, examining how ideas of civilization, manliness, and the mythology of endangered white womanhood were invoked to justify mob violence, alongside the anti-lynching campaigns that opposed it. Holloway pairs the narrative with period photographs and imagery of lynching to show how the violence was publicized rather than hidden. The material is graphic, drawn from primary sources on one of the most brutal chapters of post-Civil War American history.