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Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The Testimony in the Impeachment of Adelbert Ames, as Governor of Mississippi written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Lemann
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 142992361X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Redemption written by Nicholas Lemann and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the terrorist campaign that took them away. Nicholas Lemann opens his extraordinary new book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate veterans-turned-vigilantes attacked the black community there and massacred hundreds of people in a gruesome killing spree. This was the start of an insurgency that changed the course of American history: for the next few years white Southern Democrats waged a campaign of political terrorism aiming to overturn the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and challenge President Grant'ssupport for the emergent structures of black political power. The remorseless strategy of well-financed "White Line" organizations was to create chaos and keep blacks from voting out of fear for their lives and livelihoods. Redemption is the first book to describe in uncompromising detail this organized racial violence, which reached its apogee in Mississippi in 1875. Lemann bases his devastating account on a wealth of military records, congressional investigations, memoirs, press reports, and the invaluable papers of Adelbert Ames, the war hero from Maine who was Mississippi's governor at the time. When Ames pleaded with Grant for federal troops who could thwart the white terrorists violently disrupting Republican political activities, Grant wavered, and the result was a bloody, corrupt election in which Mississippi was "redeemed"—that is, returned to white control. Redemption makes clear that this is what led to the death of Reconstruction—and of the rights encoded in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. We are still living with the consequences.
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Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Senate of the State of Mississippi written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keith D. Dickson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book No Surrender written by Keith D. Dickson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern and current examination of Reconstruction that explains how the South in the aftermath of defeat in a total war, was still able to exhaust the will of the powerful North using asymmetric warfare. The end of the Civil War may have marked the end of the official fighting, but the Congressional strategy to remake the South during Reconstruction led to a new period of warfare—asymmetric warfare in which the defeated Confederacy became the Southern resistance. Despite all the power at its disposal, the North failed to change the South after nearly 11 years of effort and instead accepted a political-social equilibrium dictated by the South. This book presents Reconstruction through an unconventional lens to explain the process of transition from war to warfare, and finally to equilibrium represented by the emergence of the New South. Author Keith D. Dickson explains how Reconstruction created a false equilibrium in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War and was reversed by Congressional action that imposed a new social and political order. By resistance of these actions through asymmetric warfare, the white South was able to establish a new equilibrium—one dictated by the South that opened the path to the New South. Providing insights from an author who is both a respected academic military historian as well as a former practitioner of unconventional warfare as a Special Forces officer, the book covers the historical period 1865–1877, casting the Reconstruction period as an example of protracted asymmetric warfare. This asymmetric warfare was conducted in phases against the Republican state governments. As both the U.S. Congress and the Grant administration abandoned the lofty goals for Reconstruction, a bitterly contested presidential election provided the opportunity to establish conditions favorable to the white South that would in turn lead to a political-social equilibrium that allowed reconciliation to begin.
Author : Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198022301
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The House of Percy written by Bertram Wyatt-Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-21 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novels of Walker Percy--The Moviegoer, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome to name a few--have left a permanent mark on twentieth-century Southern fiction; yet the history of the Percy family in America matches anything, perhaps, that he could have created. Two centuries of wealth, literary accomplishment, political leadership, depression, and sometimes suicide established a fascinating legacy that lies behind Walker Percy's acclaimed prose and profound insight into the human condition. In The House of Percy, Bertram Wyatt-Brown masterfully interprets the life of this gifted family, drawing out the twin themes of an inherited inclination to despondency and an abiding sense of honor. The Percy family roots in Mississippi and Louisiana go back to "Don Carlos" Percy, an eighteenth-century soldier of fortune who amassed a large estate but fell victim to mental disorder and suicide. Wyatt-Brown traces the Percys through the slaveholding heyday of antebellum Natchez, the ravages of the Civil War (which produced the heroic Colonel William Alexander Percy, the "Gray Eagle"), and a return to prominence in the Mississippi Delta after Reconstruction. In addition, the author recovers the tragic lives and literary achievements of several Percy-related women, including Sarah Dorsey, a popular post-Civil War novelist who horrified her relatives by befriending Jefferson Davis--a married man--and bequeathing to him her plantation home, Beauvoir, along with her entire fortune. Wyatt-Brown then chronicles the life of Senator LeRoy Percy, whose climactic re-election loss in 1911 to a racist demagogue deply stung the family pride, but inspired his bold defiance to the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. The author goes on to tell the poignant story of poet and war hero Will Percy, the Senator's son. The weight of this family narrative found expression in Will Percy's memoirs, Lanterns on the Levee--and in the works of Walker Percy, who was reared in his cousin Will's Greenville home after the suicidal death of Walker's father and his mother's drowning. As the biography of a powerful dynasty, steeped in Sou8thern traditions and claims to kinship with English nobility, The House of Percy shows the interrelationship of legend, depression, and grand achievement. Written by a leading scholar of the South, it weaves together intensive research and thoughtful insights into a riveting, unforgettable story.
Author : Mississippi Historical Society
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Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society written by Mississippi Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1026 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Mississippi: Testimony as to Denial of Elective Franchise in Mississippi at the Elections of 1875 and 1876 written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Goleman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496812050
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Your Heritage Will Still Remain written by Michael J. Goleman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Heritage Will Still Remain details how Mississippians, black and white, constructed their social identity in the aftermath of the crises that transformed the state beginning with the sectional conflict and ending in the late nineteenth century. Michael J. Goleman focuses primarily on how Mississippians thought of their place: as Americans, as Confederates, or as both. In the midst of secession, white Mississippians held firm to an American identity and easily transformed it into a Confederate identity venerating their version of American heritage. After the war, black Mississippians tried to etch their place within the Union and as part of transformed American society. Yet they continually faced white supremacist hatred and backlash. During Reconstruction, radical transformations within the state forced all Mississippians to embrace, deny, or rethink their standing within the Union. Tracing the evolution of Mississippians' social identity from 1850 through the end of the century uncovers why white Mississippians felt the need to create the Lost Cause legend. With personal letters, diaries and journals, newspaper editorials, traveler's accounts, memoirs, reminiscences, and personal histories as its sources, Your Heritage Will Still Remain offers insights into the white creation of Mississippi's Lost Cause and into the battle for black social identity. It goes on to show how these cultural hallmarks continue to impact the state even now.
Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300274491
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Frederick Douglass Papers written by Frederick Douglass and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer dating from the immediate post–Civil War years This third volume of Frederick Douglass’s Correspondence Series exhibits Douglass at the peak of his political influence. It chronicles his struggle to persuade the nation to fulfill its promises to the former slaves and all African Americans in the tempestuous years of Reconstruction. Douglass’s career changed dramatically with the end of the Civil War and the long-sought after emancipation of American slaves; the subsequent transformation in his public activities is reflected in his surviving correspondence. In these letters, from 1866 to 1880, Douglass continued to correspond with leading names in antislavery and other reform movements on both sides of the Atlantic, and political figures began to make up an even larger share of his correspondents. The Douglass Papers staff located 817 letters for this time period and selected 242, or just under 30 percent, of them for publication. The remaining 575 letters are summarized in the volume’s calendar.
Author : James Wilford Garner
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Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Reconstruction in Mississippi written by James Wilford Garner and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David G. Sansing
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Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Role of the Scalawag in Mississippi Reconstruction written by David G. Sansing and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : State Library of Massachusetts
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Total Pages : 690 pages
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Download or read book Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts written by State Library of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas McAdory Owen
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Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book A Bibliography of Mississippi written by Thomas McAdory Owen and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mississippi. Legislature. House of Representatives
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Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Journal written by Mississippi. Legislature. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes called, adjourned and extraordinary sessions.
Author : Kristofer Allerfeldt
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147667065X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Organized Crime in the United States, 1865-1941 written by Kristofer Allerfeldt and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do Americans alternately celebrate and condemn gangsters, outlaws and corrupt politicians? Why do they immortalize Al Capone while forgetting his more successful contemporaries George Remus or Roy Olmstead? Why are some public figures repudiated for their connections to the mob while others gain celebrity status? Drawing on historical accounts, the author analyzes the public's understanding of organized crime and questions some of our most deeply held assumptions about crime and its role in society.
Author : Josh Foreman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439663971
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Hidden History of Jackson written by Josh Foreman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Jackson is filled with gripping tales of horrors and heroism. Join Ryan Starrett and Josh Foreman as they reveal the hidden past of the City with Soul. A recording company founded in the mid-1960s with the expectation of competing with New Orleans and Memphis was a national success, outlasting its better-funded rivals. Known as the "Devil's Backbone," the Natchez Trace is the graveyard for countless travelers slain by the road's numerous serial killers, brigands and land pirates. Yet one mass grave stands above the others: the Boyd Mounds, which hold the remains of thirty-one Choctaws. Although legend has it that the father of Jackson, Louis LeFleur, was a Canadian trapper famous in high society for his dancing, the truth is even stranger.
Author : Stephen Budiansky
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780670018406
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (184 download)
Download or read book The Bloody Shirt written by Stephen Budiansky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative account of Reconstruction-era violence documents vigilante attacks on African Americans and their white allies, in a fast-paced analysis that traces the period as reflected by the careers of two Union officers, a Confederate general, a northern entrepreneur, and a former slave.
