The white planters wanted to drive freedmen out of Memphis and back to plantations, to support cotton...
Reconstruction
His story represents the lives of many African American leaders who remain in the shadows of history...
The violent overthrow of a duly elected government by a group of white supremacists. Introduction The Wilmington...
African Americans gained political power yet faced the backlash of white supremacy and racial violence. Introduction I’ll...
Insights into the lives of African Americans at Arlington and other plantations in the Upper South before...
It would take several decades of legal action and years of nonviolent direct action to spark real...
It was not until 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education and later 1964 with the Civil...
Introduction Reconstruction is the name of the historical period following the American Civil War during which the...
Andrew Johnson lacked Lincoln’s political skills and instead exhibited a stubbornness and confrontational approach. Introduction President Johnson...
Reconstruction-era governments did make genuine gains in rebuilding Southern states devastated by the war. By Tina Ulrich,...
Were the Copperheads traitors or merely exercising the right to criticize the government? To what extent did...
Reconstruction’s influence of and effects upon religion, education, industry, and taxation. Organized Religion Freedmen were very active...
The of the aftermath of the Civil War and the brief attempt to “reconstruct” the U.S. South...
The views of the Vice President rarely matter too much, unless something happens to the President. In...