civil war paragraph

350 words essay,   use the research database  "American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals: 1866-1877"  located through the Ellis Library (in Research Databases section) web site. (Astate.edu) library page

use a minimum of six newspaper articles from the 1866-1877 period that demonstrate how some things changed for former slaves in the first twelve years after the Civil War and some things did not. 

 summarize from the articles and explain what each tells us about race relations during Reconstruction.  Provide the citations within the narrative using parentheses.