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Arguing Against the 15th Amendment and Blacks Voting in Georgia in 1869

In March of 1869 states took up the ratification of the 15th Amendment. The 15th Amendment outlawed discrimiation in voting based on race. One state…

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Were the Ku Klux Ghosts of Confederate Soldiers? Mississippi 1868

This article announces the arrival of the KKK in Grenada, Miss. through the mockery of a black preacher. In the article “Uncle Ike” (older African…

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Podcast: Did You Know That Disney Hired a Communist to Help Prepare the Script for “Song of the South”?

The podcast “You Must Remember This” continues its series on Disney’s song of the South. Walt Disney knew he was going to get criticized as…

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After Longstreet’s Infamous Letter Endorsing Black Civil Rights, the Destruction of His Reputation Began

This morning, I posted Gen. James Longstreet’s “infamous letter” in which he called on Southern whites to accept that the Confederacy had lost the war…

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The Lost Cause that Built Jim Crow: Henry Louis Gates in the NY Times

Professor Henry Louis Gates has an interesting article in today’s New York Times that examines the role of the Lost Cause and Redeemer narratives in…

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The Scientific Defense of the Segregation of Southern Schools by Race

From the conservative Democratic newspaper the Yorkville Enquirer comes the opinion of science in favor of racial segregation and white superiority. This South Carolina newspaper…

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Definition of Scalawag: A “Southron who…lives upon the sickening odors of negro love.”

“Scalawag” was a derogatory term for white Southerners who joined the Republican Party or otherwise aided in the Reconstruction project of the Federal government. Scalawags…

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Black Troops Engage in Anti-Klan Operations in Tennesee in February 1868

The Klan did not simply run roughshod over the countryside in 1868. Army detachments, including black U.S. soldiers, were sent to combat the Klan. One…

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The Real Enemy of Blacks Is Not Whites, It Is Poor White Southerners Says NY World January 1869

The New York World is often described as the newspaper that most reflected the views of the national leadership of the Democratic Party during the…

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Poll: How Much Does the History of Slavery Impact Modern African Americans?

A new survey from the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago shows that while older white Americans still question the long-term effects…

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