Recasting Southern Religion.
Look at this postwar reaction to the
attempt at reunification of the Methodist Church, originally published in
the New York Journal of Commerce, and reprinted in the Atlanta
Constitution, 29 May 1870.
The Paramilitary Backlash.
Read Burton, Age of Lincoln, chapter twelve. View the cartoon
and read the description from the Colfax Massacre Page at Harpweek. Read the
excerpted section from James S. Pike, The Prostrate State. Read the report of the
select U.S. Congressional Committee, Mississippi in 1875. You may optionally read the court
case of U.S. v. Cruickshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1876).
The Gospel of Prosperity,
Read Burton, Age of Lincoln, chapter thirteen. You may
optionally browse through materials about the Labor Strike of
1877 from the "Railroads and the Making of Modern America" website at the
U. of Nebraska.
The Economic Crisis of the 1870s and
the Compromise of 1877.
Read the UH Digital History accounts of The End of Reconstruction and the Disputed Presidential Election of 1876.
Disfranchisement and Segregation.
Read Burton, Age of Lincoln, chapter fourteen.
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