AAAS 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Colfax Massacre, Suffrage, White Southerners
14 Sep 2016
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1:46 pm: reconstruction, freedom means work- free labor, freedom as autonomy, new political formations, equal rights leagues, union leagues, armed militias, new state constitutional conventions: 4. 1. for the first time, black men are able to vote for these conventions, and in many of the former confederate states, they work for things like education, debt eradication, fund public railroads, etc. Also pushes for land distribution, for suffrages, integrated public accommodations. A number of black office holders during this period: rebuilding families and communities, baptist revivals. The formation of large numbers of independent black institutions. No trust in white southerners: building schools. Black people formed their own schools, in larger numbers than the. Lot of question over whether marriages wanted to be formalized: struggle for the ballot, suffragists and universal suffrage, labor, labor in the north. By the end of reconstruction, black people control 1. 3% of the country"s wealth. Caused fear that black people would take their jobs.
