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Overview

• Post Civil War Reconstruction• Legal Struggle• Social Struggle

• Post Civil War Reconstruction• Legal Struggle• Social Struggle

Post Civil War

• Radical Republicans• Unionists• Dixiecrats

• Black people

• Radical Republicans• Unionists• Dixiecrats

• Black people

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Radical Republicans

• Punish South– Reapply for

statehood– Expropriate

rebel leaders

• Empower Republican Party

– Enfranchise Black voters

• Punish South– Reapply for

statehood– Expropriate

rebel leaders

• Empower Republican Party

– Enfranchise Black voters

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Unionists

• Preserve Federal government• Amnesty for Rebels• Revitalization of southern

economy

• Preserve Federal government• Amnesty for Rebels• Revitalization of southern

economy

Dixiecrats

• Reestablish pre-war political order• Reestablish pre-war racial labor

system

• Reestablish pre-war political order• Reestablish pre-war racial labor

system

Black people

• Family reunification• Economic empowerment• Freedmen’s Bureau

• Family reunification• Economic empowerment• Freedmen’s Bureau

Legal Struggle

• Black Codes• Amendments and Civil Rights acts• Federal Courts

• Black Codes• Amendments and Civil Rights acts• Federal Courts

Black Codes

• Establish indentured servitude• Limit black political action

• Establish indentured servitude• Limit black political action

Amendments and Civil Rights• Amendments

– 13th– 14th– 15th

• Civil rights legislation

• Amendments– 13th– 14th– 15th

• Civil rights legislation

Lynchings

– 1200 lynchings of African Americans

– 1400 lynchings of Mexican Americans

– 1200 lynchings of African Americans

– 1400 lynchings of Mexican Americans

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New Stereotypes

– Myth of Black Rapist– health differences– intelligence– morality

– Myth of Black Rapist– health differences– intelligence– morality

Nationalizing Race Theory

– Social Darwinism– defined– movement to the rest of US– application to other “non-white

races”

– Social Darwinism– defined– movement to the rest of US– application to other “non-white

races”

The Ku Klux Klan

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1924

– 1924=20 million

– members– growth outside

South

– 1924=20 million

– members– growth outside

South

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(photo from Records of the United States Information Agency, Record Group 306, item 306-NT-650-4)

Klan March 1920’s

– Public grouping– Political organization

• klan women

– Public grouping– Political organization

• klan women