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This is a selected bibliography of the main scholarly books and articles of Reconstruction, the period after the American Civil War, 1863–1877.
The caning of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts. The attack was in retaliation for an invective-laden speech given by Sumner two days earlier in which he fiercely criticized slaveholders, including pro-slavery South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler, a relative of Brooks. The beating nearly killed Sumner and contributed significantly to the country's polarization over the issue of slavery. It has been considered symbolic of the "breakdown of reasoned discourse" and willingness to resort to violence that eventually led to the Civil War.
Wyatt Outlaw was an American politician and the first African-American to serve as Town Commissioner and Constable of the town of Graham, North Carolina. He was lynched by the White Brotherhood, a branch of the Ku Klux Klan on February 26, 1870. His death, along with the assassination of white Republican State Senator John W. Stephens at the Caswell County Courthouse, provoked Governor William Woods Holden to declare martial law in Alamance and Caswell Counties, resulting in the Kirk-Holden War of 1870.
John Sinclair Leary was an American lawyer, politician, federal official, and law school dean. He was of mixed ethnicity. He is described as one of the first black lawyers in North Carolina and was a member of the state legislature from 1868 to 1870. He was an alderman in Fayetteville and later held federal government appointments. He was the first dean of the law school at Shaw University in 1890.
Lieutenant Charles Carroll Wood was the first Canadian Officer to die in the Second Boer War. As a member of a family that had distinguished itself in America, his great grandfather being Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States, he was buried with full military honours.
Whitefield J. McKinlay was a teacher, state legislator, and real estate businessman who lived in Charleston, South Carolina and then Washington D.C. The Library of Congress has a glass plate negative portrait of him. In other photographs he is among leaders of Charleston's African American community. He was a Republican. Many of his letters remain.
The Carolinian. formerly the Carolina Tribune, is an African-American newspaper published in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.
William M. Thomas was an African-American Republican politician during the Reconstruction era. He was a minister affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He represented Colleton County in the 1868 South Carolina Constitutional Convention and in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1868 until 1876. He was also an officer in the state militia and was a delegate to the 1876 Republican National Convention. He was categorized as "colored". He and Joseph D. Boston were the only African Americans to serve all four terms during the Reconstruction era in the South Carolina House.
Jesse Chisholm Duke was a religious and political leader in Alabama who established and edited the Baptist Montgomery Herald newspaper and served as a Selma University trustee. He advocated for civil rights for African Americans.
George Allen Mebane was a state legislator in North Carolina. He lived in Windsor. He was African American. He served in the North Carolina Senate during the 1876–1877 session representing Bertie County and Northampton County.
Henry C. Cherry was a politician in North Carolina. He lived in Tarboro.
Alexander B. Hicks Jr. was a state legislator in North Carolina. He represented Washington County in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1881.
W. T. J. Hayes, sometimes documented as H. T. J. Hayes, was a public official and state legislator in North Carolina. He served in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1868 for Halifax County, North Carolina. He was a signatory of North Carolina's 1868 Constitution. He was a Republican.
John S. W. Eagles was a state legislator in North Carolina. He served in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1869 ti 1870. He represented New Hanover County and was African American. He lived in Wilmington.
William W. Watson Sr. was an American politician. He was a Republican Party political leader in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. He served in the North Carolina House of Representatives.
Hanson Truman Hughes was an American politician and state legislator in North Carolina. He represented Granville County, North Carolina in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1876. He was one of five African Americans serving in the North Carolina Senate in 1876 to 1877. He also worked as a barber.
William Patrick Mabson, Sr., was an American educator, minister, newspaper owner, editor, and politician. He was a state legislator in North Carolina for at least two terms, active during the Reconstruction era. Mabson was one of the founders of Freedom Hill, Edgecombe County, North Carolina.
Alfred Augustus Howe was an American carpenter and politician in North Carolina. He served as an Alderman in Wilmington, North Carolina and as a county commissioner. He was African American.
Valentine Howe Sr. was an African American builder and state legislator in North Carolina. He was elected in 1887 to the North Carolina House of Representatives, after defeating Alfred Moore Waddell. Hailing from a prominent family of carpenters and builders, Howe served as an alderman, vestryman, volunteer with the Cape Fear Fire Company, and was an Odd Fellow. He died at age 63 in 1904.
Samuel Hynes Vick was an influential resident of North Carolina. A teacher, he was a Republican and served as postmaster. He served as a school principal and owned real estate including a hotel and a movie theater.
References
- ↑ A History of African Americans in North CarolinaSivision of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources (1997) page 210
- ↑ Kenzer, Robert C.; Kenzer, Professor Robert C. (December 30, 1997). Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina, 1865-1915. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 9780813917337 – via Google Books.
- ↑ ""A Horrid Slander." · UNC Libraries".
- ↑ Crow, Jeffrey J.; Durden, Robert F. (March 1, 1999). Maverick Republican in the Old North State: A Political Biography of Daniel L. Russell. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807125212 – via Google Books.
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