Category: Civil Rights Acts
Kate Masur’s Excellent Book Pulitzer Finalist: “Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction,”
Although the Pulitzer Prize for history went to a book on 18th Century Native American relations with English colonists and another on Cuba, Kate Masur’s…
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later edited by Adam Domby and Simon Lewis
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later edited by Adam Domby and Simon Lewis, Published by Fordham University Press (2022) Freedoms…
Historian Kate Masur in NY Times on Finishing the Work of Junteenth
Historian Kate Masur has an essay in today’s New York Times on the unfinished work of the civil rights struggle that led to Juneteenth. According…
Black Celebration Day of New Won Citizenship Turns to Bloody Night in Norfolk in April, 1866
This is the story of a night of horror that began as celebration of the recognition of the citizenship of Black people. The death toll…
Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur
Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur published by W.W. Norton (2021) One of my…
Freedmen’s Bureau Report for Virginia Sept. 30, 1868-The trials of whites for the murder of Negroes
By October, 1868, when this report on the work of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Virginia was published, the Bureau was just three months away from…
War of Northern Aggression, Civil War, War Between the States…The Eternal Argument (or was it?)
One of the most tiresome aspects of writing about the Civil War and Reconstruction period is encountering people who insist that the “real name” of…
March 18, 1869: Pres. Grant Signs Law Barring Racial Discrimination in Laws in District of Columbia
On March 18, 1869 President Grant signed legislation eliminating the word “white” wherever it was used as a qualification for voting, serving on a jury,…
When Ulysses S. Grant Barred Governmental Discrimination Against Blacks in the Nation’s Capital March 1869
On March 18, 1869 the new President Ulysses S. Grant signed legislation eliminating the word “white” wherever it was used as a qualification for voting,…
Video Panel Discussion on Black Suffrage During Reconstruction
C-Span has an interesting panel discussion from the November 2016 Lincoln Forum. The panel discusses African American suffrage during Reconstruction. It looks at broader issues…