"We Will Be Satisfied With Nothing Less" : The African American Struggle for Equal Rights in the North during Reconstruction /

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Historians have focused almost entirely on the attempt by southern African Americans to attain equal rights during Reconstruction. However, the northern states also witnessed a significant period of struggle during these years. Northern blacks vigorously protested laws establishing inequality in edu...

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Autor principal: Davis, Hugh, 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Equality before the law.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Noirs americains > Droits > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noirs americains > Histoire > 1863-1877.
Equality before the law > United States > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century.
African Americans > History > 1863-1877.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Launching the equal rights movement
  • Toward a Fifteenth Amendment
  • The crusade for equal access to public schools, 1864-1870
  • The equal rights struggle in the 1870s
  • The Republican retreat from Reconstruction.

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