Heroes of the American Reconstruction: Profiles of Sixteen Educators, Politicians and ActivistsMcFarland, 1 ene 2005 - 184 páginas The history of post-Civil War Reconstruction wasn't written by the winners. Congress forced Reconstruction on an unrepentant South steeped in resentment and hatred, where old attitudes still held sway, murder and depredations against freed slaves and sympathizers were rampant, and black laws swapped the physical bonds of slavery for legislative ones. During Reconstruction, talented black leaders rose to serve in Congress and in state and local governments. Blacks and whites struggled together to secure the rights of millions of freed slaves, now citizens, and to heal the wounds of a shattered nation. But Reconstruction was overthrown, victim of lingering antipathy and a smear campaign that fueled the end myth of a South ravaged by incompetents, scalawags and carpetbaggers. These biographical sketches profile 16 diverse men and women whose Reconstruction efforts should not be overlooked. They range from Blanche Kelso Bruce--a freed slave who became the first African American to serve a full term in and preside over the Senate, and to have his signature appear on the nation's currency--to James Longstreet, one of the Confederacy's greatest generals, branded a traitor to the lost cause and slandered as the goat of Gettysburg after he championed equal voting rights. |
Índice
Preface | 1 |
Samuel Chapman Armstrong 18391893 | 20 |
Blanche Kelso Bruce 18411898 | 34 |
Cassius Marcellus Clay 18101903 | 44 |
Robert Brown Elliott 18421884 | 52 |
Charlotte Forten Grimké 18371914 | 59 |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson 18231911 | 67 |
John Mercer Langston 18291897 | 75 |
Albert R Parsons 18481887 | 111 |
Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback 18371921 | 124 |
Robert Smalls 18391915 | 134 |
Albion Winegar Tourgee 18381905 | 140 |
George Henry White 18521918 | 146 |
The End of Reconstruction | 155 |
Notes | 163 |
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James Longstreet 18211904 | 87 |
John Roy Lynch 18471939 | 95 |
Albert Talmon Morgan 18421922 | 101 |
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