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WAKE, North Carolina in the 1870s: 1 through 9 of 9

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  1. Address to the Black People of North Carolina
    date December 19, 1870map WAKE, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Politics

    Beginning in the fall of 1867, the Military Reconstruction Acts allowed qualified residents of ex-Confederate states to elect delegates to new Constitutional conventions. The Republican Party exclusively supported the implementation of these Acts, consequently gaining full support from the black community. Furious over losing the war and slave property, ex-Confederate Democrats molested blacks at the...

  2. William Woods Holden, Governor of North Carolina, removed from office by impeachment
    date March 11, 1871map WAKE, North Carolinatags Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    William Woods Holden was the Governor of North Carolina in 1865 and from 1868-1871. As, the Civil War progressed Holden became a member of the Republican Party. During occupation, Holden was appointed Governor, but lost in the elections later that year. By 1868, however, Holden was a Republican leader, who was convinced of the value and need for railroads, and he was elected Governor. In 1870, Holden...

  3. The Impeachment of Governor Holden
    date March 23, 1871map WAKE, North Carolinatags Crime/Violence, Government, Law, Politics

    On March 23, 1871 Governor William Woods Holden became the first governor in American history to be impeached. The North Carolina House of Representatives convicted Holden on six out of an initial eight charges levied against him by the North Carolina Senate. Among the impeachment charges: that he had proclaimed insurrection, declared martial law, made illegal arrests of eighty-two citizens of Alamance,...

  4. Miscegenation laws passed prohibiting racial intermarriage
    date July 7, 1873map WAKE, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    : By 1873, both Virginia and North Carolina had installed conservative, white-dominated state governments, the former having been “redeemed' in 1870; that is, white Virginians generally opposed to black rights controlled state government.' (Hartzell 135). The relative lack of Federal interference in these states' legislative actions and nearly nonexistent Republican influence allowed North Carolina...

  5. North Carolinians Strive for Free Public Schools
    date December 26, 1873map WAKE, North Carolinatags Education, Government, Law

    The North Carolina legislature took a step in the right direction by proposing a bill to authorize cities and towns with more than 2,000 inhabitants to establish and maintain public schools. Authorities of these towns could at anytime decide whether or not free public schools shall be established. Raleigh citizens voiced their overwhelming approval for this bill during a town meeting. The public school...

  6. Raleigh Baptist Answers the Call of the Holy Spirit
    date March 5, 1876 to March 12, 1876map WAKE, North Carolinatags Church/Religious-Activity

    The Baptists of Raleigh overflowed in the street outside the meeting house where Elder F.M. Jordan preached the gospel that night. The following day, March 6, 1876, the Holy Spirit called J.S. Allen, one of Jordan's followers, to build a meeting house to hold all of his Brother and Sister Baptists who wished to worship. Mrs. Hufman, a fellow Baptist, relayed the Holy Spirit's message to Allen, telling...

  7. “Battle of the Giants' , North Carolina Gubernatorial Election of 1876
    date November 7, 1876map WAKE, North Carolinatags Race-Relations

    The Republican Party was on the defensive for the 1876 gubernatorial election in North Carolina with the issues of reconstruction, Black domination, and white supremacy dominating the campaign. Meanwhile, the state's conservative party adopted the name, “democratic,' so they could cooperate with the national party. The North Carolina conservative-democrats nominated Zebulon B. Vance, a famous...

  8. The Racism of Reconstruction
    date April 1, 1877map WAKE, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    The period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War saw a fluctuation of freedoms for African Americans in the former Confederate South. The newspapers of the time, like the Raleigh Register, were critical of the roles of African Americans in society, and used offensive language when describing the people of that race. While slavery no longer existed, Reconstruction proved to be successful only...

  9. A Tax Outrage
    date February 12, 1878map WAKE, North Carolinatags taxes, Economy

    “We have paid an insane tax to the government says the North and East.  We of the West and the South have complained true, but not unreasonably, our burdens are heavier than we can bear, heavier than we ought to bear, or than we will bear.”  The northern and southern parts of the state debated tax policy during an 1878 session of the state legislature in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Both sides...