Title: Southern Black leaders of the Reconstruction era /
Authors: Rabinowitz, Howard N.,
Date: 1982
Publisher: University of Illinois Press,
Physical description: xxiv, 422 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: E
Abstract: Essays examine the lives of black leaders of the Reconstruction era, and their stands on major issues.
Contents: Introduction: The changing image of Black Reconstructionists / Howard N. Rabinowitz -- PART I: CONGRESSMEN: Blanche K. Bruce of Mississippi: conservative assimilationist / William C. Harris -- John Roy Lynch: Republican stalwart from Mississippi / John Hope Franklin -- Race and faction in the public career of Florida's Josiah T. Walls / Peter D. Klingman -- James T. Rapier of Alabama and the noble cause of Reconstruction / Loren Schweninger -- James O'Hara of North Carolina: Black leadership and local government / Eric Anderson -- PART II: COLLECTIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STATE AND LOCAL LEADERS: Negro delegates to the state constitutional conventions of 1867-69 / Richard L. Hume -- The origins of Negro leadership in New Orleans during Reconstruction / David C. Rankin -- Richmond's Black councilmen, 1871-96 / Michael B. Chesson -- Negro state legislators in South Carolina during Reconstruction / Thomas C. Holt -- PART III: INDIVIDUAL STATE AND LOCAL LEADERS: Holland Thompson and Black political participation in Montgomery, Alabama / Howard N. Rabinowitz -- Aaron A. Bradley: voice of Black labor in the Georgian lowcountry / Joseph P. Reidy -- William Finch of Atlanta: the Black politician as civic leader / James M. Russell and Jerry Thornbery -- Dr. Benjamin A. Boseman, Jr.: Charleston's Black physician-politician / William C. Hine -- George T. Ruby and the politics of expediency in Texas / Carl H. Moneyhon -- APPENDIX: New perspectives on the nature of Black political leadership during Reconstruction / August Meier.
Subject headings (LCSH): African American leadership--Southern States--History--19th century.; African Americans--Southern States--Biography.; African Americans--Southern States--History--19th century.; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Reconstruction.; Southern States--Biography; Southern States--History--1865-1877.; Southern States--Race relations.