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Five months after the end of the Civil War, northern journalist Sidney Andrews toured the former Confederacy to report on the political, economic, and social conditions in the aftermath of the south's defeat. His more than forty articles in the Chicago Tribune and the Boston Advertiser were so popular with curious northerners that Andrews published them as a book in 1866. This is Andrews's vivid first-hand account of the South after the Civil War....
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For a brief period after the Civil War, the first and in many ways the last years of Emancipation, there was a great upsurge of optimism and achievement among Negro Americans, Black politicians, lawyers, businessmen and farmers showed that neither servitude nor skin color was relevant to the incidence of ability, intelligence, creativity, and dignity.
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In this program, historians trace the westward migration of former slaves to Oklahoma after the Civil War, where they built many thriving towns-and their subsequent exodus to Tulsa. The primary focus is on the towns of Clearview and Boley, where blacks operated thriving cotton-growing operations until 1907, when the most restrictive Jim Crow laws in American history were passed. As Ku Klux Klan activity intensified and the economy bottomed out in...
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W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. DuBois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction...
19) Climbing up to glory: a short history of African Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction
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Jenkins (history, Temple U.) describes the experiences of ordinary African Americans as they reinvented their lives after the abolition of slavery. Topics include, for example, the reunification of families, the efforts of blacks to educate themselves, the struggle to gain economic independence, and the formation of black churches. The text is accompanied throughout by b&w photographs and other illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc.,...
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The University of Illinois Press offers online access to "The Booker T. Washington Papers," a 14-volume set published by the press. Users can search the papers, view images, and purchase the print version of the volumes. Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) was an African-American educator who was born a slave in Franklin County, Virginia.
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