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Lemann, Nicholas.

Title Redemption : the last battle of the Civil War / Nicholas Lemann.

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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	975.00496 L541r 2006	---	Available

Edition	1st ed.
Description	xi, 257 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-236) and index.
Contents	Adelbert and Blanche -- Vicksburg troubles -- The Peace Conference -- Revolution -- The Mississippi plan.
Summary	A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. Journalist Lemann describes an insurgency that changed the course of American history: from 1873 to 1877 white Southern Democrats waged a campaign of political terrorism to create chaos and keep blacks from voting out of fear for their lives and livelihoods, aiming to overturn the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and challenge President Grant's support for the emergent structures of black political power. The remorseless strategy of well-financed "White Line" organizations culminated in a bloody, corrupt election in which Mississippi was "redeemed"--that is, returned to white control. This led to the death of Reconstruction--and of the constitutional rights of the former slaves. We are still living with the consequences.--From publisher description.
Subject	African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States -- History.
	African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History.
	Violence -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
	Southern States -- History -- 1865-1951.
	Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.
	Ames, Adelbert, 1835-1933.
ISBN	0374248559 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	9780374248550
Standard No.	YDXCP 2417757
	NLGGC 291736181
	NZ1 10646143
	AU@ 000040063695