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Many Voices, Similar Concerns: Traditional Methods Of African-American Political Activity In Norfolk, Virginia, 1865-1875, Michael Hucles

History Faculty Publications

African-Americans in postbellum Norfolk, Virginia, as elsewhere, knew that merely gaining freedom through government action--the Confiscation Acts, Emancipation Proclamation, and Thirteenth Amendment--did not guarantee that they would be fairly treated. They therefore attempted to gain control of their lives through a vigorous affirmation of their rights. They began to record their antebellum marriages and normalize family relations, obtain an education, establish a base for economic prosperity, and participate in the political process. Through these actions they hoped to give true meaning to their freedom. Unfortunately, they were not always successful in their attempts.

Reconstruction In Kemper County, Mississippi, Michael Brian Connolly

History Theses & Dissertations

Blacks were the passive victims in Kemper County, Mississippi, the scene of violence and murder in Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan, the Order of '76, and a continuing animosity between scalawag Radical Republicans and white-line Democrats were instrumental in perpetuating a frontier atmosphere wherein the pistol and Bowie knife were commonplace. Shooting or killing was an acceptable method of settling one's differences with another. Freedom and new rights for the majority black population of the county and seven years of Radical rule in the county provoked night-riding violence, murder and finally, the Mississippi Plan, successful revolution at the ballot box …

Blacks In Norfolk Virginia During The 1930'S, Norma Cromwell Fields

History Theses & Dissertations

This thesis analyzes the experience of blacks in Norfolk, Virginia, during the Depression decade of the 1930's. It emphasizes the problems blacks faced in an era of rising unemployment and entrenched segregation. The study uses a variety of tables to show comparatively high rates of' disease, joblessness, and crime along with related discrimination in pay and in the distribution of public and private funds for humanitarian purposes.

Using a wide variety of primary sources, including personal interviews, the study examines a variety of subjects. In addition to portraying the plight of the black population, the thesis discusses the role of …

A Study Of The Causes Of The Negro Migration Of 1922-1923 From Rural Georgia To Northern Cities, Ali Jalal Abed

History Theses & Dissertations

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Methodist Missions To The Plantation Slaves Of The South Carolina Conference, Dale E. Henderson

History Theses & Dissertations

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