The Union League And Biracial Politics In Reconstruction Texas

Author : Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1623499569

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The Union League and Biracial Politics in Reconstruction Texas by Carl H. Moneyhon Pdf

The Republican Union League of America played a major role in the Southern Reconstruction that followed the American Civil War. A secret organization introduced into Texas in 1867 to mobilize newly enfranchised black voters, it was the first political body that attempted to secure power by forming a biracial coalition. Originally intended by white Unionists simply to marshal black voters to their support, it evolved into an organization that allowed blacks to pursue their own political goals. It was abandoned by the state's Republican Party following the 1871 state elections. From the beginning the use of the league by the Republican party proved controversial. While its opponents charged that its white leadership simply manipulated ignorant blacks to achieve power for themselves, ultimately encouraging racial conflict, the League not only educated blacks in their new political rights but also protected them in the exercise of those rights. It gave blacks a voice in supporting the legislative program of Gov. Edmund J. Davis, helping him to push through laws aimed at the maintenance of law and order, securing basic civil rights for blacks, and the creation of public schools. Ultimately, its success and its secrecy provoked hostile attacks from political opponents, leading the party to stop using it. Nonetheless, the Union League created a legacy of black activism that lasted throughout the nineteenth century and pushed Texas toward a remarkably different world from the segregated and racist one that developed after the league disappeared.

Author : John R. Lundberg
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781648431760

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The Texas Lowcountry by John R. Lundberg Pdf

In The Texas Lowcountry: Slavery and Freedom on the Gulf Coast, 1822–1895, author John R. Lundberg examines slavery and Reconstruction in a region of Texas he terms the lowcountry—an area encompassing the lower reaches of the Brazos and Colorado Rivers and their tributaries as they wend their way toward the Gulf of Mexico through what is today Brazoria, Fort Bend, Matagorda, and Wharton Counties. In the two decades before the Civil War, European immigrants, particularly Germans, poured into Texas, sometimes bringing with them cultural ideals that complicated the story of slavery throughout large swaths of the state. By contrast, 95 percent of the white population of the lowcountry came from other parts of the United States, predominantly the slaveholding states of the American South. By 1861, more than 70 percent of this regional population were enslaved people—the heaviest such concentration west of the Mississippi. These demographics established the Texas Lowcountry as a distinct region in terms of its population and social structure. Part one of The Texas Lowcountry explores the development of the region as a borderland, an area of competing cultures and peoples, between 1822 and 1840. The second part is arranged topically and chronicles the history of the enslavers and the enslaved in the lowcountry between 1840 and 1865. The final section focuses on the experiences of freed people in the region during the Reconstruction era, which ended in the lowcountry in 1895. In closely examining this unique pocket of Texas, Lundberg provides a new and much needed region-specific study of the culture of enslavement and the African American experience.

Author : Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623499570

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The Union League and Biracial Politics in Reconstruction Texas by Carl H. Moneyhon Pdf

The Republican Union League of America played a major role in the Southern Reconstruction that followed the American Civil War. A secret organization introduced into Texas in 1867 to mobilize newly enfranchised black voters, it was the first political body that attempted to secure power by forming a biracial coalition. Originally intended by white Unionists simply to marshal black voters to their support, it evolved into an organization that allowed blacks to pursue their own political goals. It was abandoned by the state’s Republican Party following the 1871 state elections. From the beginning the use of the league by the Republican party proved controversial. While its opponents charged that its white leadership simply manipulated ignorant blacks to achieve power for themselves, ultimately encouraging racial conflict, the League not only educated blacks in their new political rights but also protected them in the exercise of those rights. It gave blacks a voice in supporting the legislative program of Gov. Edmund J. Davis, helping him to push through laws aimed at the maintenance of law and order, securing basic civil rights for blacks, and the creation of public schools. Ultimately, its success and its secrecy provoked hostile attacks from political opponents, leading the party to stop using it. Nonetheless, the Union League created a legacy of black activism that lasted throughout the nineteenth century and pushed Texas toward a remarkably different world from the segregated and racist one that developed after the league disappeared.

Author : Michael W. Fitzgerald
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807126330

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The Union League Movement in the Deep South by Michael W. Fitzgerald Pdf

Led by a coalition of blacks and whites with funding from congressional radicals, the Union League was a secret society whose express purpose was to bring freedmen into the political arena after the Civil War. Angry and resentful of the lingering vestiges of the plantation system, freedmen responded to the League’s appeals with alacrity, and hundreds of thousands joined local chapters, speaking and acting collectively to undermine the residual trappings of slavery in plantation society. League actions nurtured instability in the work force, which eventually compelled white planters to relinquish direct control over blacks, encouraging the evolution from gang labor to decentralized tenancy in the southern agricultural system as well as the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan. In this impressive work—the first full-scale study of the effect the Union League had on the politicization of black freedmen—Michael W. Fitzgerald explores the League’s influence in Alabama and Mississippi and offers a fresh and original treatment of an important and heretofore largely misunderstood aspect of Reconstruction history.

Author : Clement M. Silvestro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : OSU:32435003005550

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None But Patriots by Clement M. Silvestro Pdf

This study presents the story of the Union Leagues from their origin through their decline following Reconstruction, expanding and bringing into focus the movement in all the states, and showing the development of the national organization. It discusses the changing character of the Union Leagues immediately following the war, their relation to the Grand Army of the Republic, the Freedom's Bureau, and the Union Congressional Committee of the Republican party. The focus of the study is national, for the Union Leagues were symbolic of the nationalizing force in American political, economic, and cultural life.

Author : Ron Tyler
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477325988

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Texas Lithographs by Ron Tyler Pdf

Westward expansion in the United States was deeply intertwined with the technological revolutions of the nineteenth century, from telegraphy to railroads. Among the most important of these, if often forgotten, was the lithograph. Before photography became a dominant medium, lithography—and later, chromolithography—enabled inexpensive reproduction of color illustrations, transforming journalism and marketing and nurturing, for the first time, a global visual culture. One of the great subjects of the lithography boom was an emerging Euro-American colony in the Americas: Texas. The most complete collection of its kind—and quite possibly the most complete visual record of nineteenth-century Texas, period—Texas Lithographs is a gateway to the history of the Lone Star State in its most formative period. Ron Tyler assembles works from 1818 to 1900, many created by outsiders and newcomers promoting investment and settlement in Texas. Whether they depict the early French colony of Champ d’Asile, the Republic of Texas, and the war with Mexico, or urban growth, frontier exploration, and the key figures of a nascent Euro-American empire, the images collected here reflect an Eden of opportunity—a fairy-tale dream that remains foundational to Texans’ sense of self and to the world’s sense of Texas.

Author : Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 158544362X

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Texas After The Civil War by Carl H. Moneyhon Pdf

Moneyhon looks at the reasons Reconstruction failed to live up to its promise.

Author : Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1585441724

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Republicanism Reconstruction Tx by Carl H. Moneyhon Pdf

Author : Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher : Texas Christian University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0875657486

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George T. Ruby by Carl H. Moneyhon Pdf

"This is the biography of George T. Ruby, an African American statesman who was active in Texas politics and fought for equal rights for black freedmen in Reconstruction Texas"--

Author : Jan Johnson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439665312

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Unforgettable Galveston Characters by Jan Johnson Pdf

From financiers of the Texas Revolution to contestants in the Pageant of Pulchritude, the shores of Galveston enticed and cultivated a host of memorable men and women. Bishops and bookies, concert pianists and cotton tycoons--all left an indelible print on their remarkable home. Magnolia Willis Sealy and the members of the Women's Health Protective Association reshaped the ravages of the Great Storm into the glories of the Oleander City. The benevolent activism of Norris Wright Cuney transformed the social landscape, while actress Charlotte Walker and painter Boyer Gonzales Sr. extended the island's cultural reach abroad. Jan Johnson keeps company with Galveston's most fascinating characters.

Author : Boris Heersink,Jeffery A. Jenkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107158436

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Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968 by Boris Heersink,Jeffery A. Jenkins Pdf

Traces how the Republican Party in the South after Reconstruction transformed from a biracial organization to a mostly all-white one.

Author : Joseph Gibbs
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0890968926

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Gorbachev's Glasnost by Joseph Gibbs Pdf

"In Gorbachev's Glasnost: The Soviet Media in the First Phase of Perestroika, author Joseph Gibbs traces the development of glasnost as both concept and policy, from the Leninist idea of "criticism and self-criticism" to Gorbachev's attempt to modernize and reinterpret that doctrine to fit his own political goals and aspirations."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Ronald R. Krebs
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1603447091

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Dueling Visions by Ronald R. Krebs Pdf

The presidential election of 1952, unlike most others before and since, was dominated by foreign policy, from the bloody stalemate of Korea to the deepening menace of international communism. During the campaign, Dwight Eisenhower and his spokesmen fed the public's imagination with their promises to liberate the peoples of Eastern Europe and created the impression that in office they would undertake an aggressive program to roll back Soviet influence across the globe. But time and again during the 1950s, Eisenhower and his advisers found themselves powerless to shape the course of events in Eastern Europe: they mourned their impotence but did little. In "Dueling Visions," Ronald R. Krebs argues that two different images of Eastern Europe's ultimate status competed to guide American policy during this period: Finlandization and rollback. Rollback, championed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Central Intelligence Agency, was synonymous with liberation as the public understood it--detaching Eastern Europe form all aspects of Soviet control. Surprisingly, the figure most often linked to liberation--Secretary of State John Foster Dulles --came to advocated a more subtle and measure policy that neither accepted the status quo nor pursued rollback. This American vision for the region held up the model of Finland, imagining a tier of states that would enjoy domestic autonomy and perhaps even democracy but whose foreign policy would toe the Soviet line. Krebs analyzes the conflicting logics and webs of assumptions underlying these dueling visions, and closely examines the struggles over these alternatives within the administration. Case studies of the American response to Stalin's death and to the Soviet--Yugoslav rapprochement reveal the eventual triumph of Finlandization both as vision and as policy. Finally, Krebs suggests the study's implications for international relations theory and contemporary foreign affairs.

Author : Chris Tomlinson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466850507

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Tomlinson Hill by Chris Tomlinson Pdf

A New York Times Best Seller! Tomlinson Hill is the stunning story of two families—one white, one black—who trace their roots to a slave plantation that bears their name. Internationally recognized for his work as a fearless war correspondent, award-winning journalist Chris Tomlinson grew up hearing stories about his family's abandoned cotton plantation in Falls County, Texas. Most of the tales lionized his white ancestors for pioneering along the Brazos River. His grandfather often said the family's slaves loved them so much that they also took Tomlinson as their last name. LaDainian Tomlinson, football great and former running back for the San Diego Chargers, spent part of his childhood playing on the same land that his black ancestors had worked as slaves. As a child, LaDainian believed the Hill was named after his family. Not until he was old enough to read an historical plaque did he realize that the Hill was named for his ancestor's slaveholders. A masterpiece of authentic American history, Tomlinson Hill traces the true and very revealing story of these two families. From the beginning in 1854— when the first Tomlinson, a white woman, arrived—to 2007, when the last Tomlinson, LaDainian's father, left, the book unflinchingly explores the history of race and bigotry in Texas. Along the way it also manages to disclose a great many untruths that are latent in the unsettling and complex story of America. Tomlinson Hill is also the basis for a film and an interactive web project. The award-winning film, which airs on PBS, concentrates on present-day Marlin, Texas and how the community struggles with poverty and the legacy of race today, and is accompanied by an interactive web site called Voice of Marlin, which stores the oral histories collected along the way. Chris Tomlinson has used the reporting skills he honed as a highly respected reporter covering ethnic violence in Africa and the Middle East to fashion a perfect microcosm of America's own ethnic strife. The economic inequality, political shenanigans, cruelty and racism—both subtle and overt—that informs the history of Tomlinson Hill also live on in many ways to this very day in our country as a whole. The author has used his impressive credentials and honest humanity to create a classic work of American history that will take its place alongside the timeless work of our finest historians

Author : David G. McComb
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292720534

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Galveston by David G. McComb Pdf

Looks at the forces which have shaped Galveston's history, describes the island city's geography, wildlife, and ecology, and recounts the disastrous hurricane of 1900