Defining moments
Subtitle: African American commemoration and political culture in the South, 1863-1913
By: Kathleen Clark.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: African Americans -- Southern States -- Anniversaries, etc; Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States -- Anniversaries, etc; African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877; African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964; African Americans -- Southern States -- Politics and government; Political culture -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Political culture -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950; Southern States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Language that cannot be misunderstood : African American commemoration, 1863-1913; title: The vanguard of liberty must look into the past : celebrations of freedom; title: A resurrection of manhood : gendered reconstruction; title: Has emancipation been a failure? : the end of Reconstruction; title: Signs of the times : making progress in the post-Reconstruction South; title: Bosoms filled with hope : collective representation in the age of Jim Crow.