Carpetbaggers Cavalry And The Ku Klux Klan

Author : James Michael Martinez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0742550788

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Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan by James Michael Martinez Pdf

In some places during Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a social fraternity whose members enjoyed sophomoric high jinks and homemade liquor. In other areas, the KKK was a paramilitary group intent on keeping former slaves away from white women and Republicans away from ballot boxes. South Carolina saw the worst Klan violence and, in 1871, President Grant sent federal troops under the command of Major Lewis Merrill to restore law and order. Merrill did not eradicate the Klan, but he arguably did more than any other person or entity to expose the identity of the Invisible Empire as a group of hooded, brutish, homegrown terrorists. In compiling evidence to prosecute the leading Klansmen and restoring at least a semblance of order to South Carolina, Merrill and his men demonstrated that the portrayal of the KKK as a chivalric organization was at best a myth and at worst a lie. Book jacket.

Author : J. Michael Martinez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442215009

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Coming for to Carry Me Home by J. Michael Martinez Pdf

Coming for to Carry Me Home examines the history of the politics surrounding U.S. race relations during the half century between the rise of the abolitionist movement in the 1830s and the dawn of the Jim Crow era in the 1880s. J. Michael Martinez argues that Abraham Lincoln and the Radical Republicans in Congress were the pivotal actors, albeit not the architects, that influenced this evolution. To understand how Lincoln and his contemporaries viewed race, Martinez first explains the origins of abolitionism and the tumultuous decade of the 1830s, when that generation of political leaders came of age. He then follows the trail through Reconstruction, Redemption, and the beginnings of legal segregation in the 1880s. This book addresses the central question of how and why the concept of race changed during this period.

Author : Laura Martin Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UIUC:30112083987096

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The Ku Klux Klan by Laura Martin Rose Pdf

Author : J. Michael Martinez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442203242

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Terrorist Attacks on American Soil by J. Michael Martinez Pdf

Understanding the context of terrorism requires a trek through history, in this case the history of terrorist activity in the United States since the Civil War. Because the topic is large and complex, Terrorists Attacks on American Soil: From the Civil War to the Present does not claim to be an exhaustive history of terrorism or the definitive account of how and why terrorists do what they do. Instead, this book takes a representative sampling of the most horrific terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in an effort to understand the context in which they occurred and the lessons that can be learned from these events.

Author : Scott Farris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493046362

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Freedom on Trial by Scott Farris Pdf

The Confederacy lost the Civil War but quickly began to win the peace when a mysterious organization arose called the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux, as it was then called, sought to restore white supremacy by terrorizing the formerly enslaved to prevent them from voting or owning firearms. To support Black resistance to the KKK’s campaign of murder and mayhem, President Ulysses S. Grant suspended the writ of habeas corpus in large portions of South Carolina and sent the famed 7th Cavalry to make mass arrests. Grant’s new attorney general, the first former Confederate to serve in a presidential Cabinet and an ardent advocate for Black equality, Amos T. Akerman, aggressively prosecuted the Ku Klux in a series of sensational trials that shocked the nation and forced a reckoning regarding just how much the Civil War and the recently enacted Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the Constitution had changed America and its notions of citizenship. Highlighting forgotten Black and white civil rights pioneers and weaving in the story of the author’s own great-grandfather’s crimes as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Freedom on Trial tells a gripping story of a moment pregnant with promise when race relations in the United States might have taken a dramatically different turn. It is a story that also offers a sober lesson for those engaged in the ongoing work of fulfilling the American promise of equality for all.

Author : Mark Moyar
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300156010

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A Question of Command by Mark Moyar Pdf

Moyar presents a wide-ranging history of counterinsurgency which draws on the historical record and interviews with hundreds of counterinsurgency veterans. He identifies the ten critical attributes of counterinsurgency leadership and reveals why these attributes have been more prevalent in some organizations than others.

Author : James Michael Martinez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1442259949

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A Long Dark Night by James Michael Martinez Pdf

A Long Dark Night provides a sweeping history of an often overlooked period of African American history that followed the collapse of Reconstruction. Discussing both crucial political issues and public policy decisions as well as a the lives of black and white Americans between the 1880s and the 1940s, A Long Dark Night will be of interest to all readers seeking to better understand this crucial era that continues to resonate throughout American life today.

Author : G Hodgson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1973-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2070288781

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CARPETBAGGERS ET KU-KLUX-KLAN by G Hodgson Pdf

Author : J. Michael Martinez
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498559454

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Congressional Lions by J. Michael Martinez Pdf

In some periods of American history, members of the legislative branch have been as influential, and sometimes more influential, than a particular president in crafting public policy and reacting to world events. Congressional Lions examines twelve influential members of Congress throughout American history to understand their role in shaping the life of the nation. The book does not focus exclusively on the biographical details of these lawmakers, although biography invariably plays a role in recalling their triumphs and tragedies. Instead, the book highlights members’ legislative accomplishments as well as the circumstances surrounding their congressional service.

Author : Keith D. Dickson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440848940

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No Surrender by Keith D. Dickson Pdf

A modern and current examination of Reconstruction that explains how the South in the aftermath of defeat in a total war, was still able to exhaust the will of the powerful North using asymmetric warfare. The end of the Civil War may have marked the end of the official fighting, but the Congressional strategy to remake the South during Reconstruction led to a new period of warfare—asymmetric warfare in which the defeated Confederacy became the Southern resistance. Despite all the power at its disposal, the North failed to change the South after nearly 11 years of effort and instead accepted a political-social equilibrium dictated by the South. This book presents Reconstruction through an unconventional lens to explain the process of transition from war to warfare, and finally to equilibrium represented by the emergence of the New South. Author Keith D. Dickson explains how Reconstruction created a false equilibrium in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War and was reversed by Congressional action that imposed a new social and political order. By resistance of these actions through asymmetric warfare, the white South was able to establish a new equilibrium—one dictated by the South that opened the path to the New South. Providing insights from an author who is both a respected academic military historian as well as a former practitioner of unconventional warfare as a Special Forces officer, the book covers the historical period 1865–1877, casting the Reconstruction period as an example of protracted asymmetric warfare. This asymmetric warfare was conducted in phases against the Republican state governments. As both the U.S. Congress and the Grant administration abandoned the lofty goals for Reconstruction, a bitterly contested presidential election provided the opportunity to establish conditions favorable to the white South that would in turn lead to a political-social equilibrium that allowed reconciliation to begin.

Author : J. Michael Martinez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442259966

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A Long Dark Night by J. Michael Martinez Pdf

For a brief time following the end of the U.S. Civil War, American political leaders had an opportunity—slim, to be sure, but not beyond the realm of possibility—to remake society so that black Americans and other persons of color could enjoy equal opportunity in civil and political life. It was not to be. With each passing year after the war—and especially after Reconstruction ended during the 1870s—American society witnessed the evolution of a new white republic as national leaders abandoned the promise of Reconstruction and justified their racial biases based on political, economic, social, and religious values that supplanted the old North-South/slavery-abolitionist schism of the antebellum era. A Long Dark Night provides a sweeping history of this too often overlooked period of African American history that followed the collapse of Reconstruction—from the beginnings of legal segregation through the end of World War II. Michael J. Martinez argues that the 1880s ushered in the dark night of the American Negro—a night so dark and so long that the better part of a century would elapse before sunlight broke through. Combining both a “top down” perspective on crucial political issues and public policy decisions as well as a “bottom up” discussion of the lives of black and white Americans between the 1880s and the 1940s, A Long Dark Night will be of interest to all readers seeking to better understand this crucial era that continues to resonate throughout American life today.

Author : Randall D. Law
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745658216

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Terrorism by Randall D. Law Pdf

Terrorism is one of the forces defining our age, but it has also been around since some of the earliest civilizations. This one-of-a-kind study of the history of terrorism — from ancient Assyria to the post-9/11 War on Terror — puts terrorism into broad historical, political, religious and social context. The book leads the reader through the shifting understandings and definitions of terrorism through the ages, and its continuous development of themes allows for a fuller understanding of the uses of and responses to terrorism. The study of terrorism is constantly growing and ever changing. In Terrorism: A History, Randall Law gives students and general readers access to this rich field through the most up-to-date research combined with a much-needed long-range historical perspective. He extensively covers jihadism, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Northern Ireland and the Ku Klux Klan plus lesser known movements in Uruguay, Algeria and even the pre-modern uses of terror in ancient Rome, medieval Europe and the French Revolution, among other topics.

Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317457916

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The Civil War Era and Reconstruction by Mary Ellen Snodgrass Pdf

The encyclopedia takes a broad, multidisciplinary approach to the history of the period. It includes general and specific entries on politics and business, labor, industry, agriculture, education and youth, law and legislative affairs, literature, music, the performing and visual arts, health and medicine, science and technology, exploration, life on the Western frontier, family life, slave life, Native American life, women, and more than a hundred influential individuals.

Author : John Patrick Daly
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820368634

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The War After the War by John Patrick Daly Pdf

Author : Timothy P. Grady,Melissa Walker
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611172546

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Recovering the Piedmont Past by Timothy P. Grady,Melissa Walker Pdf

The history of South Carolina’s lowcountry has been well documented by historians, but the upcountry—the region of the state north and west of Columbia and the geologic fall line—has only recently begun to receive extensive scholarly attention. The essays in this collection provide a window into the social and cultural life of the upstate during the nineteenth century. The contributors explore topics ranging from the history of education in the region to the pugnacity of the Scots-Irish, from post–Civil War occupation by Union troops to upcountry tourism, from the Freedman’s Bureau’s efforts to educate African Americans to the complex dynamics of lynch mobs in the late nineteenth century. Recovering the Piedmont Past illustrates larger trends of social transformation occurring in the region at a time that shaped religion, education, race relations and the economy well into the twentieth century. The essays add depth and complexity to our understanding of nineteenth century southern history and challenge accepted narratives about a homogeneous South. Ultimately each of the eight essays explores little known facets of the history of upcountry South Carolina in the nineteenth century. The collection includes a foreword by Orville Vernon Burton, professor of history and director of the Cyberinstitute at Clemson University.