Filter By Subjects
African Americans Civil rights History 19th century African Americans Legal status, laws, etc History 19th century African Americans Politics and government 19th century Civil rights movements United States History 19th century HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Relations with African Americans Slaves Emancipation United States United States Politics and government 1861-1865 United States Race relations Whites United States Attitudes History 19th centuryFilter By Subjects
African Americans Civil rights History 19th century African Americans Legal status, laws, etc History 19th century African Americans Politics and government 19th century Civil rights movements United States History 19th century HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Relations with African Americans Slaves Emancipation United States United States Politics and government 1861-1865 United States Race relations Whites United States Attitudes History 19th centuryEscott, Paul D.
Summary: "Throughout the Civil War, newspaper headlines and stories repeatedly asked some variation of the question posed by the New York Times in 1862, "What shall we do with the negro?" The future status of African Americans was a pressing issue for both those in the North and in the South. Consulting a broad range of contemporary newspapers, magazines, books, army records, government documents,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Virginia Press 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 ESCKlingaman, William K.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 KLIPenningroth, Dylan C.
Summary: The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America's legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered, police and judges often closed their eyes, if they didn't join in. For Black people, law was a hostile, fearsome power to be avoided whenever possible. Then, starting in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 PENMasur, Kate
Summary: "A groundbreaking history of the antebellum movement for equal rights that reshaped the institutions of freedom after the Civil War. The half century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over freedom as well as slavery: what were the arrangementsof free society, especially for African Americans? Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted black codes that discouraged the settlement and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021