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Reconstruction in America : racial violence after the Civil War, 1865-1876
- Title
- Reconstruction in America : racial violence after the Civil War, 1865-1876 / Equal Justice Initiative.
- Author
- Equal Justice Initiative, issuing body.
- Publication
- Montgomery, Alabama : Equal Justice Initiative, [2020]
- ©2020
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | E185.2 .E65 2020eb | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 118 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (some color), maps; 26 cm
- Summary
- "EJI's new report, Reconstruction in America, documents nearly 2,000 more confirmed racial terror lynchings of Black people by white mobs in America than previously detailed. The report examines the 12 years following the Civil War when lawlessness and violence perpetrated by white leaders created an American future of racial hierarchy, white supremacy, and Jim Crow laws--an era from which our nation has yet to recover"--Equal Justice Initiative website, viewed June 29, 2020
- Alternative Title
- Racial violence after the Civil War, 1865-1876
- Subject
- 1800-1950
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- African Americans > Violence against > History > Southern States > 19th century
- Freed persons > Crimes against > History > Southern States > 19th century
- Lynching > Southern States > History > 19th century
- Hate crimes > Southern States > History > 19th century
- Political violence > Southern States > History > 19th century
- Domestic terrorism > Southern States > History > 19th century
- African Americans > Violence against
- Domestic terrorism
- Hate crimes
- Lynching
- Political violence
- Politics and government
- Race relations
- Southern States > Race relations > History > 19th century
- Southern States > Politics and government > 1865-1950
- Southern States
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Official reports.
- illustrated books.
- History.
- Illustrated works.
- Official reports – Alabama – Montgomery – 2020.
- Note
- Introduction by Bryan Stevenson.
- "This report is written, researched, designed, and produced by the Equal Justice Initiative. It is a part of a series of reports researched, written, and produced by EJI on the history of racial inequality in America. We would like to specially thank Jennifer Taylor for research, writing, editing, and photo research ..."--Acknowledgments
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-118).
- Contents
- Introduction -- Journey to freedom : emancipation and citizenship -- Inequality after enslavement -- Emancipation by proclamation, then by law -- Freedom to fear : a terrifying and deadly backlash -- Black political mobilization and White backlash -- Fighting for education -- Resisting economic exploitation -- Documenting Reconstruction violence : known and unknown horrors -- 34 documented mass lynchings during the Reconstruction era -- Racial terror and Reconstruction : a state snapshot -- The danger of freedom -- Political violence -- Economic intimidation -- Enforcing the racial social order -- Organized terror and community massacres -- Accusations of crime -- Arbitrary and random violence -- Reconstruction's end -- Reconstruction vs. Southern Redemption -- Judicial and political abandonment -- Redemption wins -- A vanishing hope -- A truth that needs telling.
- OCLC
- on1184052788
- SCSB-14150924
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library