Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Investigate the Causes of the Removal of the Negroes from the Southern States to the Northern States
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Report and Testimony of the Select Committee of the United States Senate to Investigate the Causes of the Removal of the Negroes from the Southern States to the Northern States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Investigate the Causes of the Removal of the Negroes from the Southern States to the Northern States
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
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Category : African Americans
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Report and Testimony of the Select Committee of the United States Senate to Investigate the Causes of the Removal of the Negroes from the Southern States to the Northern States. in Three Parts
Author: U. S. Congress, Senate Select Committee on Forest Reservations in California
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ISBN: 9780598284006
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Languages : en
Pages : 558
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ISBN: 9780598284006
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Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Report and Testimony of the Select Committee of the United States Senate to Investigate the Causes of the Removal of the Negroes from the Southern States to the Northern States ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
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Category : African Americans
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Report and Testimony of the Select Committee of the United States Senate To Investigate the Causes of the Removal of the Negroes from the Southern States to the Northern States. In Three Parts. Part I.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee To Investigate Causes Leading to the Emigration of Negroes from the Southern to the Northern States
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Languages : en
Pages : 473
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 473
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Report and Testimony of the Select Committee of the United States Senate to Investigate the Causes of the Removal of the Negroes from the Southern States to the Northern States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Investigate Causes Leading to the Emigration of Negroes from the Southern to the Northern States
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Report and Testimony of the Select Committee of the United States Senate to Investigate the Causes of the Removal of the Negroes from the Southern States to the Northern States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate
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ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Report and Testimony of the Select Committee of the United States Senate to Investigate the Causes of the Removal of the Negroes from the Southern States to the Nothern States
Author: U. S. Congress, Senate Select Committee on Forest Reservations in California
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ISBN: 9780598535740
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Languages : en
Pages : 558
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ISBN: 9780598535740
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Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Senate reports
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Languages : en
Pages : 1218
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Pages : 1218
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Reports of Committees
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
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Redemption
Author: Nicholas Lemann
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9781429923613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the terrorist campaign that took them away. Nicholas Lemann opens his extraordinary new book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate veterans-turned-vigilantes attacked the black community there and massacred hundreds of people in a gruesome killing spree. This was the start of an insurgency that changed the course of American history: for the next few years white Southern Democrats waged a campaign of political terrorism aiming to overturn the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and challenge President Grant'ssupport for the emergent structures of black political power. The remorseless strategy of well-financed "White Line" organizations was to create chaos and keep blacks from voting out of fear for their lives and livelihoods. Redemption is the first book to describe in uncompromising detail this organized racial violence, which reached its apogee in Mississippi in 1875. Lemann bases his devastating account on a wealth of military records, congressional investigations, memoirs, press reports, and the invaluable papers of Adelbert Ames, the war hero from Maine who was Mississippi's governor at the time. When Ames pleaded with Grant for federal troops who could thwart the white terrorists violently disrupting Republican political activities, Grant wavered, and the result was a bloody, corrupt election in which Mississippi was "redeemed"—that is, returned to white control. Redemption makes clear that this is what led to the death of Reconstruction—and of the rights encoded in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. We are still living with the consequences.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9781429923613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the terrorist campaign that took them away. Nicholas Lemann opens his extraordinary new book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate veterans-turned-vigilantes attacked the black community there and massacred hundreds of people in a gruesome killing spree. This was the start of an insurgency that changed the course of American history: for the next few years white Southern Democrats waged a campaign of political terrorism aiming to overturn the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and challenge President Grant'ssupport for the emergent structures of black political power. The remorseless strategy of well-financed "White Line" organizations was to create chaos and keep blacks from voting out of fear for their lives and livelihoods. Redemption is the first book to describe in uncompromising detail this organized racial violence, which reached its apogee in Mississippi in 1875. Lemann bases his devastating account on a wealth of military records, congressional investigations, memoirs, press reports, and the invaluable papers of Adelbert Ames, the war hero from Maine who was Mississippi's governor at the time. When Ames pleaded with Grant for federal troops who could thwart the white terrorists violently disrupting Republican political activities, Grant wavered, and the result was a bloody, corrupt election in which Mississippi was "redeemed"—that is, returned to white control. Redemption makes clear that this is what led to the death of Reconstruction—and of the rights encoded in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. We are still living with the consequences.