Author: Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585441723
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Author: Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585443628
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Moneyhon looks at the reasons Reconstruction failed to live up to its promise.

Author: Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 0875657508
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 490

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Volume two of The Texas Biography Series reveals Edmund J. Davis, the heroic man who stood in strong opposition to his peers and better reflected the ideals of the nation than those of so many of his contemporaries. Carl H. Moneyhon presents a long overdue favorable account of a man who was determined to make progressive changes and stand in stark opposition to the state’s political elite. What moved this man to take such a dramatic stand against his political peers? Moneyhon strives to answer this very question. Edmund J. Davis was not only a part of the political elite during the Civil War, but he also opposed secession. He refused to follow most of Texas’ leaders and actively opposed the Confederacy by attempting to bring Texas back to the Union. After the war, Davis was a leader in reconstructing the state based on true free labor and pursued progressive and egalitarian policies as governor of Texas. Through the entire reconstruction process Davis faced extreme Confederate hostility. After leaving the governor’s mansion an unpopular man and politician, he still remained dedicated to changing Texas. He worked to change his adopted state until the day he died.

Author: Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623499577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 547

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The Republican Union League of America played a major role in the Southern Reconstruction that followed the American Civil War. A secret organization introduced into Texas in 1867 to mobilize newly enfranchised black voters, it was the first political body that attempted to secure power by forming a biracial coalition. Originally intended by white Unionists simply to marshal black voters to their support, it evolved into an organization that allowed blacks to pursue their own political goals. It was abandoned by the state’s Republican Party following the 1871 state elections. From the beginning the use of the league by the Republican party proved controversial. While its opponents charged that its white leadership simply manipulated ignorant blacks to achieve power for themselves, ultimately encouraging racial conflict, the League not only educated blacks in their new political rights but also protected them in the exercise of those rights. It gave blacks a voice in supporting the legislative program of Gov. Edmund J. Davis, helping him to push through laws aimed at the maintenance of law and order, securing basic civil rights for blacks, and the creation of public schools. Ultimately, its success and its secrecy provoked hostile attacks from political opponents, leading the party to stop using it. Nonetheless, the Union League created a legacy of black activism that lasted throughout the nineteenth century and pushed Texas toward a remarkably different world from the segregated and racist one that developed after the league disappeared.

Author: John M. Hopper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Author: Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
ISBN: 9780875657486
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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"This is the biography of George T. Ruby, an African American statesman who was active in Texas politics and fought for equal rights for black freedmen in Reconstruction Texas"--

Author: David Ryan Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fannin County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: Kenneth Wayne Howell
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 160344405X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Of the 174 delegates to the Texas convention on secession in 1861, only 8 voted against the motion to secede. James Webb Throckmorton of McKinney was one of them. Yet upon the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the Confederate Army and fought in a number of campaigns. At war?s end, his centrist position as a conservative Unionist ultimately won him election as governor. Still, his refusal to support the Fourteenth Amendment or to protect aggressively the rights and physical welfare of the freed slaves led to clashes with military officials and his removal from office in 1867. Throckmorton?s experiences reveal much about southern society and highlight the complexities of politics in Texas during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Because his life spans one of the most turbulent periods in Texas politics, Texas Confederate, Reconstruction Governor, the first book on Throckmorton in nearly seventy years, will provide new insights for anyone interested in the Antebellum era, the Civil War, and the troubled years of Reconstruction.

Author: Charles William Ramsdell
Publisher: Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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Presents an outline of a period in Texas history that has left a deep impress upon the later history, the political organization and the public mind of Texans.

Author: Ronald Norman Gray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reconstruction
Languages : en
Pages : 948

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