Meet the Author: Dr. Stephen A. Goldman

In 1868, the Freedmen’s Bureau, a military organization, was doing its utmost to protect the voting rights of African American males and their white allies in former Confederate states from Ku Klux Klan terrorism. Yet, black men in most Northern and border states, including those residents serving in the army, did not have the same right – this would change because of the presidential election.

Join psychiatrist and author Dr. Stephen A. Goldman, author of One More War to Fight: Union Veterans' Battle for Equality Through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause, as he explains how white Union veterans’ wartime experience with African American soldiers motivated their staunch endorsement of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the impact black and white ex-servicemen’s support had on Ulysses S. Grant’s successful run for the White House.