Reconstruction Junction (Chester the Crab's Comix With Content) Paperback – 1 April 2010

Purchased for classroom use. These have made an excellent and popular resourcefor students whose comprehension and reading abilities are below grade level.Relevant historical information presented in a visual format.

I'm a mom with a family of boys. We have all the Chester Comix books on the Civil War, including "Reconstruction Junction."I do not recommend this book.Chapter One sets the scene well, but the book does not continue well.Chapter Two shows a comical, clownlike KKK, a club of veterans raising money and playing banjoes and wearing comical costumes. In a 24-page book for kids about Reconstruction, we don't need 2 pages that are the "Hogan's Heroes" version of the dopey, clowny, down-homey Hee-Haw Klan. In speaking of the "Birth of a Nation" movie, Bentley Boyd leaves out all mention of President Woodrow Wilson's demonstrated racist affinity for the Klan and resegregation policies disastrous for Blacks, but instead smears Warren Harding with a "rumor" that was inducted into the Klan as president. Bad history.Chapter Three gives us six pages of George Washington Carver. Too much. And falsely tarring Booker T. Washington with a "separate but equal" brush? Bad history.Chapter Four on the railroads is worth reading.