War, Reconstruction and Reaction
TOPICS >>>
Civil War, Black Labor and Suffrage
Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
Sharecropping system, 1870s-1880s
13th, 14th and 15th Amendments
Vigilance Committees
The development of the system of sharecropping, tenant leasing
The meaning of emancipation to black women; growth of domestic
work; high percentage of black women in the labor force.
Recordings/transcripts:
former slaves describing their lives during slavery and Reconstruction,
WPA-sponsored project, 1930s
African-Americans in the Union Army:
180,000 men; high mortality
rates; extensive discrimination in the
treatment of African-American soldiers; policy of "no quarter"
Reconstruction:
The civil rights movement in the North; struggles for desegregation
Racism in the women's movement:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan
B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Douglass
and the Debate over the l5th Amendment. Equal Rights Association convention
debate
Robert Purvis, black Philadelphia abolitionist, opposed l5th amendment
Julia Ward Howe and some white feminists supported 15th amendment
Frances Harper and most black women supported 15th amendment
1877:
the compromise of 1877
the beginnings of the Jim Crow system of racial segregation
Public accommodations
Residential Codes
Amusement and Recreation; professional sports, etc.
Transportation
Political rights, suffrage, public expression
Criminal justice, chain gangs, debt peonage, sharecropping
Lynching as the principal means of racist social control
Du Bois, Black Reconstruction:
The immediate challenges of
the Reconstruction period; the role of the
Negro Church across the South; black schools and colleges; the Freedman's
Bureau;
the struggle over granting suffrage to black men; the role of black leadership
during Reconstruction
PERSONALITIES >>>
Charlotte L. Forten Grimke
1837-1914, poet, abolitionist;
volunteered to work in South Carolina during the Civil War; activist in
Freedman's Aid Society; married to Francis James Grimke; Treasury Dept.
administrator
READINGS >>>
Giddings, When
and Where I Enter Chapter
III, pp. 57-74.
Harding, There
Is A River Chapters XI,
XII, XIII, XIV, XV and XVI, pp. 219-332.
Manning Marable, Race,
Reform and Rebellion Chapter
I, "Prologue: The Legacy of the First Reconstruction," pp. 3-12.
Marable and Mullings, eds.,
Let Nobody Turn Us Around
Section Two, "Introduction,"
pp. 119-124; Numbers 1-7, pp. 125-167 and Numbers 9-10, pp. 173-181.
MULTIMEDIA >>>
Films: Clip of Birth of a
Nation, 1915, a racist interpretation of Reconstruction. Clip from Glory,
African American Federal troops fighting in the Civil War.
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