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"Presents an account of the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era. Explores the conflict over slavery; the complications and consequences of government policies enacted during Reconstruction; Jim Crow ...
"Presents an account of the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era. Explores the conflict over slavery; the complications and consequences of government policies enacted during Reconstruction; Jim Crow laws and segregation; the legacy of Reconstruction and the promise of racial equality. Includes a narrative, biographies, primary sources, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and index"--
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- by Laurie Collier Hillstrom
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- English
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- Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics, Inc., 2016
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- xvii, 228 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780780815100, 0780815106, 9780780815117
- OCLC
- ocn934886340
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Slavery and the Civil War -- Presidential reconstruction -- White southern resistance -- Radical reconstruction -- Segregation in the south -- The civil rights movement -- Legacy of Reconstruction
- Narrative overview. Prologue ; Slavery and the Civil War ; Presidential reconstruction ; White southern resistance ; Radical reconstruction ; Segregation in the South ; The civil rights movement ; Legacy of Reconstruction -- Biographies. Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885): president who enforced Congress's radical reconstruction policies ; Wade Hampton III (1818-1902): South Carolina politician who sanctioned violent white resistance ; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911): social reformer and poet who publicized the struggles of freedpeople ; Oliver O. Howard (1830-1909): Union general who oversaw the Freedmen's Bureau ; Andrew Johnson (1808-1875): president who fought with Congress over Reconstruction ; Joseph H. Rainey (1832-1887): former slave who served in the U.S Congress during Reconstruction ; Hiram R. Revels (1827-1901): minister and first African-American member of the U.S. Senate ; Robert Smalls (1839-1915): former slave who became a Union war hero and U.S. Congressman ; Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868): leader of the radical Republicans in Congress during Reconstruction -- Primary sources. Congress issues the Wade-Davis manifesto ; Black residents of Nashville petition for equality ; A former slaveholder reacts to Emancipation ; A Southern girl relates the hardships of Reconstruction ; A journalist describes postwar destruction in the South ; Andrew Johnson pardons Confederates ; Freedpeople in Virginia demand voting rights ; The Mississippi legislature enacts Black Codes ; Thaddeus Stevens opposes presidential Reconstruction ; Radical Republicans pass the Reconstruction Acts ; Wade Hampton III promotes white control of the South ; A black legislator resists efforts to unseat him ; A black leader testifies about racial violence ; Booker T. Washington looks back on Reconstruction ; Eric Foner examines the legacy of Reconstruction -- Important people, places, and terms -- Chronology