Black Political Leadership During Reconstruction
Description:
The key to Reconstruction for both blacks and whites was black suffrage. On one hand this vote made possible the elevation of black political leaders to positions of prominence in the reorganization of the South after the Civil War. For southern whites, on the other hand, black participation in the Reconstruction governments discredited the positive accomplishments of those regimes and led to the evolution of a systematized white rejection of the black as a positive force in southern politics. …
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Date:
August 1974
Creator:
Brock, Euline Williams
Partner:
UNT Libraries