Black Labor in Richmond, 1865-1890
Title | Black Labor in Richmond, 1865-1890 PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. Rachleff |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780252060267 |
''The best study yet written about the ex-slave as urban wage-earner. It is essential reading for students of Afro-American and working-class history.'' -- Herbert Gutman''This book shows that black and white workers could act together and that a working-class reform movement, at least in one southern city, could challenge the existing status quo. . . . Rachleff presents an interesting story of social, economic, and political intrigue in a post-Civil War urban environment where class was pitted against class and race against race.'' -- C. K. McFarland, Journal of Southern History
Black Labor in the South
Title | Black Labor in the South PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. Rachleff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Educational Reconstruction
Title | Educational Reconstruction PDF eBook |
Author | Hilary N. Green |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2016-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0823270130 |
Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, black Mobilians, and their white allies created, developed, and sustained a system of African American schools following the Civil War. Hilary Green proposes a new chronology in understanding postwar African American education, examining how urban African Americans demanded quality public schools from their new city and state partners. Revealing the significant gains made after the departure of the Freedmen’s Bureau, this study reevaluates African American higher education in terms of developing a cadre of public school educator-activists and highlights the centrality of urban African American protest in shaping educational decisions and policies in their respective cities and states.
Hard-pressed in the Heartland
Title | Hard-pressed in the Heartland PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. Rachleff |
Publisher | South End Press |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780896084506 |
Hard-Pressed in the Heartland tells the heartbreaking but empowering story of a spirited local union trying to resist management's drive for concessions--while fending off a conservative national union leadership unwilling to support its own members. Going beyond academic history, it offers useful perspectives for rebuilding a democratic, militant, community-based unionism that can succeed where today's bureaucratic unionism cannot.
Dimensions of Black Conservatism in the United States
Title | Dimensions of Black Conservatism in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | G. Tate |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2002-06-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230108156 |
Dimensions of Black Conservatism in the US is a collection of twelve essays by leading black intellectuals and scholars on varied dimensions of black conservative thought and activism. The book explores the political role and functions of black neoconservatives. The majority of essays cover the contemporary period. The authors have provided a historical context for the reader with several articles examining the origins and development of black conservatism.
Civil War Writing
Title | Civil War Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Cushman |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2019-03-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 080717100X |
Civil War Writing is a collection of new essays that focus on the most significant writing about the American Civil War by participants who lived through it, whether as civilians or combatants, southerners or northerners, women or men, blacks or whites. Collectively, as contributors show, these writings have sustained their influence over generations and include histories, memoirs, journals, novels, and one literary falsehood posing as an autobiographical narrative. Several of the works, such as William Tecumseh Sherman’s memoirs or Mary Chesnut’s diary, are familiar to scholars, but other accounts, including Charlotte Forten’s diary and Loreta Velasquez’s memoir, offer new material to even the most omnivorous Civil War reader. In all cases, a deeper look at these writings reveals why they continue to resonate with audiences more than 150 years after the end of the conflict. As supporting evidence for historical and biographical narratives and as deliberately designed communications, the writings discussed in this collection demonstrate considerable value. Whether exploring the differences among drafts and editions, listening closely to fluctuations in tone or voice, or tracing responses in private correspondence or published reviews, the essayists examine how authors wrote to different audiences and out of different motives, creating a complex literary record that offers rich potential for continuing evaluation of the country’s greatest national trauma. Overall, the essays in Civil War Writing underscore how participants employed various literary forms to record, describe, and explain aspects and episodes of a conflict that assumed proportions none of them imagined possible at the outset.
A Murder in Virginia
Title | A Murder in Virginia PDF eBook |
Author | Suzanne Lebsock |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780393326062 |
Recounts the events surrounding the dramatic post-Civil War trial of a young African American sawmill hand who was accused of ax murdering a white woman on her Virginia farmyard and who implicated three other women in the crime.