Redemption
Subtitle: The Last Battle of the Civil War
By: Nicholas Lemann
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780374248550
Subjects: Politics and government; Race relations; Rassendiscriminatie; Reconstruction (1865-1877); African Americans; Civil rights; Violence; Rassendiskriminierung; Segregatie; Südstaaten; Segregation; Geweld; Bürgerrecht; Negers; History
Description: A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. Journalist Lemann describes an insurgency that changed the course of American history: from 1873 to 1877 white Southern Democrats waged a campaign of political terrorism to create chaos and keep blacks from voting out of fear for their lives and livelihoods, aiming to overturn the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and challenge President Grant's support for the emergent structures of black political power. The remorseless strategy of well-financed "White Line" organizations culminated in a bloody, corrupt election in which Mississippi was "redeemed" —That is, returned to white control. This led to the death of Reconstruction— and of the constitutional rights of the former slaves. We are still living with the consequences.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-236) and index.
Table of contents: title: A Note to the Reader
pagenum: ix; title: Prologue
pagenum: 3; label: 1
title: Adelbert and Blanche
pagenum: 31; label: 2
title: Vicksburg Troubles
pagenum: 63; label: 3
title: The Peace Conference
pagenum: 100; label: 4
title: Revolution
pagenum: 135; label: 5
title: The Mississippi Plan
pagenum: 170; title: Notes
pagenum: 211; title: A Notes on Sorces
pagenum: 237; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 243; title: Index
pagenum: 245