Author: Eugene DavisPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385439930
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Proceedings of the Republican National Convention, Held at Chicago, Illinois, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday, June 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th, 1880
Author: Eugene DavisPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385439930
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Official Report of the Proceedings
Author: Reports of the Proceedings of Party Conventions, 1832-1904
Author: Library of Congress. Division of BibliographyPublisher:
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Category : Political parties
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Closing the Gate
Author: Andrew GyoryPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080786675X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred practically all Chinese from American shores for ten years, was the first federal law that banned a group of immigrants solely on the basis of race or nationality. By changing America's traditional policy of open immigration, this landmark legislation set a precedent for future restrictions against Asian immigrants in the early 1900s and against Europeans in the 1920s. Tracing the origins of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Andrew Gyory presents a bold new interpretation of American politics during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age. Rather than directly confront such divisive problems as class conflict, economic depression, and rising unemployment, he contends, politicians sought a safe, nonideological solution to the nation's industrial crisis--and latched onto Chinese exclusion. Ignoring workers' demands for an end simply to imported contract labor, they claimed instead that working people would be better off if there were no Chinese immigrants. By playing the race card, Gyory argues, national politicians--not California, not organized labor, and not a general racist atmosphere--provided the motive force behind the era's most racist legislation.
The Frederick Douglass Papers
Author: Frederick DouglassPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300257929
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
The selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer dating from the immediate post-Civil War years This third volume of Frederick Douglass's Correspondence Series exhibits Douglass at the peak of his political influence. It chronicles his struggle to persuade the nation to fulfill its promises to the former slaves and all African Americans in the tempestuous years of Reconstruction. Douglass's career changed dramatically with the end of the Civil War and the long-sought after emancipation of American slaves; the subsequent transformation in his public activities is reflected in his surviving correspondence. In these letters, from 1866 to 1880, Douglass continued to correspond with leading names in antislavery and other reform movements on both sides of the Atlantic, and political figures began to make up an even larger share of his correspondents. The Douglass Papers staff located 817 letters for this time period and selected 242, or just under 30 percent, of them for publication. The remaining 575 letters are summarized in the volume's calendar.
Proceedings of the Republican National Convention, Held at Chicago, Illinois ...
Author: Eugene DavisPublisher:
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Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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