Black Congressmen During Reconstruction

A Documentary Sourcebook

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

During the Reconstruction, African Americans from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia—former slave-owning states—were elected to Congress in remarkable numbers. They included lawyers, teachers, businessmen, editors, and ministers. African Americans gained the right to vote through the Reconstruction Acts and the Civil War Amendments, and elected 2 blacks to the Senate and 19 to the House of Representatives. This book provides brief biographical sketches of these extraordinary politicians and excerpts from documents illuminating their activities in Congress.These politicians took an active role and spoke out on issues from civil rights legislation and policies on Native Americans to the Chinese Exclusion Bill and foreign policy. They demanded a federal law making lynching a capital crime, denounced massacres in the South, and decried the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. They played important roles until the South successfully drove blacks away from the polls and from Congress.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-12-30
Mått:161 x 240 x 29 mm
Vikt:857 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:464
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780313322815

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Politik och statsskick inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

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STEPHEN MIDDLETON is Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. He is the author of The Black Laws in the Old Northwest: A Documentary History (Greenwood, 1993). His specialty is U.S. Constitutional History with a research interest in race and constitutional and legal history.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by John David Smith Editorial Statement Introduction Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce Representative Richard Harvey Cain Representative Henry Cheatham Representative Robert Carlos De Large Representative Robert Brown Elliott Representative Jeremiah Haralson Representative John Adams Hyman Representative John Mercer Langston Representative Jefferson Franklin Long Representative John Roy Lynch Representative Thomas Ezekiel Miller Representative George Washington Murray Representative Charles Edmund Nash Representative James Edward OHara Representative Joseph Hayne Rainey Representative Alonzo Jacob Ransier Representative James Thomas Rapier Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels Representative Robert Smalls Representative Benjamin Sterling Turner Representative Josiah Thomas Walls Representative George Henry White References Index