Author: Robert Brown ElliotPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Oration Delivered in Faneuil Hall, April 14, 1874, Under the Auspices of the Colored Citizens of Boston
... Oration of the Hon. Robert B. Elliott, of South Carolina
Author: Robert Browne ElliottPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Oration of Hon. Robert B. Elliott, M.C. of South Carolina
Author: Robert Brown ElliottSpectacle of Grief
Author: Sarah J. PurcellPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469668343
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This illuminating book examines how the public funerals of major figures from the Civil War era shaped public memories of the war and allowed a diverse set of people to contribute to changing American national identities. These funerals featured lengthy processions that sometimes crossed multiple state lines, burial ceremonies open to the public, and other cultural productions of commemoration such as oration and song. As Sarah J. Purcell reveals, Americans' participation in these funeral rites led to contemplation and contestation over the political and social meanings of the war and the roles played by the honored dead. Public mourning for military heroes, reformers, and politicians distilled political and social anxieties as the country coped with the aftermath of mass death and casualties. Purcell shows how large-scale funerals for figures such as Henry Clay and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson set patterns for mourning culture and Civil War commemoration; after 1865, public funerals for figures such as Robert E. Lee, Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, and Winnie Davis elaborated on these patterns and fostered public debate about the meanings of the war, Reconstruction, race, and gender.
Sumner Memorial Meeting
Author: Charles S. SpencerPublisher:
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Race Over Party
Author: Millington W. Bergeson-LockwoodPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469640422
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
In late nineteenth-century Boston, battles over black party loyalty were fights over the place of African Americans in the post–Civil War nation. In his fresh in-depth study of black partisanship and politics, Millington W. Bergeson-Lockwood demonstrates that party politics became the terrain upon which black Bostonians tested the promise of equality in America's democracy. Most African Americans remained loyal Republicans, but Race Over Party highlights the actions and aspirations of a cadre of those who argued that the GOP took black votes for granted and offered little meaningful reward for black support. These activists branded themselves "independents," forging new alliances and advocating support of whichever candidate would support black freedom regardless of party. By the end of the century, however, it became clear that partisan politics offered little hope for the protection of black rights and lives in the face of white supremacy and racial violence. Even so, Bergeson-Lockwood shows how black Bostonians' faith in self-reliance, political autonomy, and dedicated organizing inspired future generations of activists who would carry these legacies into the foundation of the twentieth-century civil rights movement.
Sumner Memorial Meeting
Author: Colored Citizens of BostonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Glorious Failure
Author: Peggy LamsonPublisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A Survey of American Negro Oratory, 1619-1900
Author: Winfield DeWitt BennettPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Negro Author
Author: Vernon LogginsPublisher: Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press
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Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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