Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational & Industrial, 1865 to the Present Time, Volume 2

Walter Lynwood Fleming

Clark Company, 1907 - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Contents

• 4 Disgraceful conditions in the schools: 4
• 5 The Louisiana State University: 5
• References: 6
• 7 Opposition to Reconstruction education: 7
• Orders similar to the League: 20
• Carpetbag and Negro Rule: 33
• The new ruling class and their administration: 39
• Frauds taxation and expenditure: 59
• 1 The refreshment room 2 The State must take care of its statesmen 3 Supplies for South Carolina: 61
• 4 Some legislative expenses: 65
• 5 Public printing in South Carolina: 68
• 6 The finances of Arkansas: 69
• 7 Taxation in North Carolina: 70
• 8 Taxation in Mississippi 9 County finances: 71
• The Reconstruction militia: 73
• 3 Negro militia in Arkansas: 76
• Political methods of Reconstruction: 81
• 3 Bacon and hams in politics: 83
• 4 Voting early and often: 85
• 5 A Little Joker 6 The ghost of the Confederacy: 86
• 7 Why Adam Kirk was a Democrat 8 Fear of spells and charms: 87
• 9 Negro Democrats in South Carolina: 88
• 10 Political intimidation: 89
• 11 Why the Whigs became Democrats: 91
• State and national politics: 93
• 2 Division among the Arkansas Republicans: 94
• 3 Reform Republicans in Arkansas: 96
• 4 Anything to defeat Grant 5 Liberal Republican demands: 97
• 6 Republican platform 1872: 98
• 8 Democratic views on the Southern Question 1876: 99
• 9 The Republican standpoint in 1876: 100
• Federal control in state affairs: 102
• 2 Second Enforcement: 112
• 3 Ku Klux: 123
• 4 Wlrit of habeas corpus suspended in South Carolina: 128
• 5 The election of a Senator: 131
• 6 The attorney general and the Alabama legislature: 133
• 7 Use of troops and deputy marshals: 135
• 8 Federal interference under the Enforcement Laws: 138
• Louisiana and Arkansas: 141
• 2 AntiWarmoth handbill 3 The usurpation of 1872: 142
• Introduction The Editor: 165
• Northern views of the educational problems: 171
• Northern aid to negro education: 182
• Education during Reconstruction: 196
• 8 Educational conditions in Mississippi: 204
• 9 A lesson in a Florida school: 205
• 10 The White League after a teacher: 206
• 11 Desire for education fast waning: 207
• 12 The mistakes of the Reconstruction education: 208
• 13 Armstrongs plans for negro education: 209
• Reconstruction in the Churches: 213
• Introduction The Editor: 215
• References: 219
• Military regulation of churches: 221
• 2 Military regulation of church services: 222
• 3 Closing the Episcopal churches: 223
• 4 A pugnacious Methodist preacher: 228
• Division or reunion: 229
• 2 The Church situation in Virginia: 230
• 3 Position of the Methodists in regard to reunion: 233
• 4 Northern ministers driven: 235
• 5 Border churches go with the South: 236
• Organizing Northern churches in the South: 238
• 2 Reconstruction of Church and State: 240
• 3 Disintegration and Absorption: 243
• The Southern white churches and the negroes: 245
• 2 Organizing a negro church: 247
• 3 Negro missions of the Southern Baptists 4 Negroes need religious instruction: 248
• 5 The Southern Methodists and the negroes: 250
• Work of the Northern churches among the negroes: 252
• 2 The American Missionary Association: 254
• 3 Working upon the colored population: 255
• 4 Mistreatment of Northern missionaries 5 A prophecy: 256
• 6 Discouragement: 257
• Conditions in the negro churches: 259
• 3 A persecuted negro church: 260
• 4 The negro Episcopalians: 261
• Social and Industrial Conditions during Reconstruction: 263
• Introduction The Editor: 265
• References: 268
• The whites during Reconstruction: 269
• 3 Fear of negro insurrection: 270
• 4 Alarm among the whites 5 Thad Stevens is dead 6 Social ostracism of Republicans: 272
• 7 Social conditions in 1875: 273
• Conditions among the negroes: 276
• 2 Feeling between whites and blacks: 277
• 3 Petty crimes among the blacks 4 The quadroons of Louisiana: 279
• 5 Blacks do not like mulattoes: 280
• 6 The rights of black women 7 Proof of Publicanlsm: 281
• 8 Kissing negro babies for votes: 282
• The Equal Rights issue: 285
• 2 Equal rights in South Carolina 3 Intermarriage of races in Georgia 4 Marrying a nigger school marm: 289
• Attempts at industrial reorganization: 298
• 2 To encourage immigration: 299
• 3 The effects of emancipation 4 Beginning with free negro labor: 300
• Conditions in the Black Belt and in the white districts: 309
• 3 Negro opposition to immigration: 310
• 4 The emancipation of white labor 5 An Englishmans estimate of free negro labor 6 Cities and varied industries: 311
• 8 The credit system: 317
• 9 The deadfall evil: 318
• 10 A Northern estimate of negro industry: 320
• 11 Conditions in 1876: 321
• 12 Cotton production by whites and blacks: 323
• The Ku Klux Movement: 325
• Introduction The Editor: 327
• References: 330
• Causes of the Ku Klux movement: 331
• 2 Why the Klan was formed in North Carolina: 333
• 3 Dissatisfaction in South Carolina: 335
• 4 An Englishmans statement of the causes: 336
• 5 Stealing and race prejudice: 337
• 6 Desire to get rid of the negro: 338
• 7 A Scalawags opinion of the causes: 339
• 8 Violation of the Appomattox Programme: 340
• 9 General Forrests explanations: 342
• 10 The Whites must and shall rule: 344
• The declarations of the secret orders: 347
• 2 The Knights of the White Camelia: 349
• 3 Initiation oath of the White Brotherhood: 354
• 4 The 76 Association 5 The Council of Safety: 355
• 6 Young Mens Democratic Club: 356
• 7 A defensive organization: 357
• 8 The White League: 358
• The methods and work of the secret orders: 360
• 3 Ku Klux costume: 364
• 4 Spreading news of the Klan: 367
• 5 A Ku Klux order: 368
• 6 A Ku Klux parade: 369
• 7 Influence in the elections: 372
• 8 Negro officials ordered to resign 9 Ku Klux discipline: 373
• 10 A decent man is safer: 376
• The Klans outlawed: 377
• 2 Martial law in Tennessee: 378
• The Undoing of Reconstruction Introduction The Editor: 381
• References: 385
• Conditions in 1874: 387
• The Mississippi revolution: 394
• The South Carolina campaign 1876: 405
• 9 A White Mans Government or Military Rule Section 4 The downfall of the Reconstruction regime: 415
• Judicial interpretation of the Reconstruc: 423
• Legislative undoing of Reconstruction: 431
• 10 Coming out of Egypt 11 Criminal negroes: 443
• 12 Societies among the blacks: 444
• 13 Hostility of the low whites 14 The only trouble now: 445
• 15 Jim Crow cars: 446
• 16 Superstition among the blacks: 447
• 17 The negro churches: 448
• Limitation of the suffrage 45: 450
• 2 South Carolina suffrage plan 3 The Grandfather plan: 451
• 4 Old Soldier and Grandfather plans: 453
• Index: 459

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational & Industrial, 1865 to the Present Time, Volume 2; Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational & Industrial, 1865 to the Present Time, Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational & Industrial, 1865 to the Present Time
• Editor: Walter Lynwood Fleming
• Publisher: Clark Company, 1907