HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Making Money, Fokker E.Ii, National Memory
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Lecture 5 the memory of the civil war in american culture. Culture of white supremacy: three figures a. i. Ape-like physiology given to the irishman on the left a. ii. In the middle is nathan bedford forest officer in the confederate army. He is holding a dagger up to stab the african american man below him. He is one of the founders of the kkk. Badge says fort pillow, an infamous massacre of african american men a. iii. Johnson gave almost all plantation lands back to their original owners wouldn"t know what to do with freedom. White southerners tried to re-erect slavery through labor contract e. i. Black codes denied civil rights, political equality e. ii. Reconstruction contract: blacks served in the senate, lots of backlash, after black men gained the vote, kkk perpetrated violence against blacks. It was politically focused, calculated to destroy the alliance between black and white farmers: northerners had more interest in making money than continuing reconstruction in the south.
