HIST 2110Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Gilded Age, Anti-Racism, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
26 Feb 2016
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Last week we explored the dual struggles of reconstruction: those that took place on the ground among freed blacks, planters and merchants, poor whites, and northerners, those that took place in washington, between president johnson and radical. That struggle in washington pushed reconstruction further than anyone had ever imagined, including guaranteeing voting rights for black men. This week we explore radical reconstruction, and its overthrow. Reconstruction had many achievements, including the creation of a system of public education for whites and blacks in the south, but failed because. African americans were never given land, economic power and stability. The federal government was unable and later unwilling to protect the political and social rights blacks had won from violence and terrorism by southern whites. Despite the promise of reconstruction, white southerners were able to re- establish their political, social, and economic dominance and a white supremacist society that would endure for decades known as the jim crow south.
