Jessica Rucker

A graduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park, Jessica A. Rucker is an educator and activist. Some of her areas of interests are the Black radical tradition, Black women’s social and political thought and activism, cultures of everyday life, and local histories.


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Writing on Public Books

Rethinking Reconstruction: Kate Masur on “Freedom Was in Sight”

“Freedom Was in Sight” conveys that even as Reconstruction ended and the Jim Crow order took shape in the South, not everything was lost.