AMH 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fisk Jubilee Singers, Colfax Massacre, Gilded Age
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Group of blacks that sang to raise money to go to college in 1870"s. University which was a black college that opened up in nashville to provide newly free blacks education. In 1868; grants anyone born in the us citizenship. In 1870; granted blacks the right to vote. Occurred in april of 1873 in colfax, la. Ward kicked out the democrats in the court house to fulfill his new position as sheriff. Christopher nash formed a militia because of his angered towards. They fired canons filledwith nuts and bolts at court house which housed ward and his deputies, who were slaughtered. Tried to fix the issue of the release of 4 million slaves in the nation by creating amendments, education, enforcement, jobs, and property. Politicians from north that came to south to tell them what to do. Americans settled on this to determine if a person is black or white (1870"s)
