Research Catalog

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Description

1. 256 p. illus.; 21 cm.

Summary

1. "Selected bibliography": p. 249-252.

Series statement

1. History of the American people

Subject

1. 1865-1877
2. Reconstruction
3. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
4. African Americans > Suffrage
5. African Americans > Civil rights
6. Working class > United States
7. United States > Politics and government > 1865-1877

Genre/Form

1. History
2. History.

Contents

1. First phase: Clash of social systems ; Lincoln and Stevens ; Stake of the working class -- I. The Johnson reaction: Lincoln's plan of reconstruction -- II. Fighting for land: Reform vs. revolution on the land question ; Role of Negro troops ; Struggle on the sea island -- III. Victory of the left: The Negro people's conventions ; Rise of the industrial bourgeoisie ; The reconstruction acts -- IV. Fighting for democracy: The union leagues ; The republican party ; The Negro militias ; Registration of the new electorate ; Political geography of the South and the role of the whites -- V. The people's assemblies: The constitutional conventions ; Negro representation ; The "Black parliaments" ; The Negro in local government ; Bourgeois reforms and "corruptions" -- VI. The labor movement: Resurgence of the trade unions ; The national labor union and the Negro ;
2. (Con.) The labor party and Negro labor ; Sylvis on reconstruction ; The colored national labor union ; The first international -- VII. Revolution and counter-revolution: "White superiority" as a political program ; Radical republican coalition -- Appendices: ...Resolution of the Virginia republican state convention ; First reconstruction act ; Address of the colored convention to the people of Alabama ; Address of the international workingmen's association to the national labor union.

Bibliography (note)

1. "Selected bibliography": p. 249-252.

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