Category: African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction
Posted in 14th Amendment African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Civil Rights Acts Jim Crow White Supremacy White Supremacy Apologetics
“Plessy v. Ferguson” Had Its Roots in the Destruction of Reconstruction: Article by David Cole
David Cole, national legal director of the ACLU and a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, has an interesting article in The Nation on the…
Opposing the Black Codes in 1865: South Carolina African Americans Speak Out
After the surrender of the Confederate armies between April and June 1865, President Andrew Johnson remarkably left state and local governments in the hands of…
Resource: Bios of Virginia’s Black Reconstruction Era Legislators
A new database of Black Legislators from Reconstruction Era Virginia is available. You can read about it here. You can find short bios of the…
Video: Professor Jonathan Holloway of Yale University on African Americans from Emancipation to Reconstruction
Over the coming months I hope to give you access to video talks on Reconstruction by some of the experts in the field. If you…
States Considered Giving Blacks Right to Sue for Being Held as Slaves after Emancipation Proclamation?
William Dunning in his Essays on the Civil War and Reconstruction and Related Topics (1897, 2nd ed. 1904) says that at the various Southern state Constitutional…
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