Episodes Around: 18680111

  1. Arkansas Black Man's Triumphant Speech
    date March, 1867 to January, 1868map PHILLIPS, Arkansastags African-Americans, Economy, Education, Government, Law, Politics, Race-Relations, Slavery, War

    In January 1868, black and white men came together for the first time in a legislative body in Arkansas to discuss the state's re-entry into the Union.The participating delegates consisted of 47 Arkansas whites, 17 outside whites, and eight African Americans.According to Richard L. Hume, the Arkansas convention was unique, however, because it contained extensive debates about the role of race.The...

  2. Formation of the Ku Klux Klan
    date April 13, 1867 to February 25, 1869map WILSON, Tennesseetags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    On April 13, 1867 the Tennessee Conservatives held a convention in Gallatin. The convention had two speakers: the Honourable Bailey Peyton and an influential African American preacher. Reports on the convention stated that the preacher stood up, declared the present Republican Governor Brownlow a colored man in disguise, and encouraged the few African American present to vote for him. The proclamation...

  3. The Republican Party in Mississippi
    date 1868map JACKSON, Mississippitags Government, Law, Politics

    In 1868, a broadside advertising the Mississippi Election Ticket for the Republican Party was released. The pamphlet was entitled Vote the Flag. There was a faded image of an American Flag in the background and a list of those running for Republican state offices in the foreground. The Republican Party had reappeared on the southern scene.

    Only three years after the close of the Civil War...

  4. The Deadly Cash Crop
    date January 11, 1868 to 1868map HENRICO, Virginiatags Agriculture, Health/Death, Economy, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Even a hundred years before Surgeon General Warnings, we already had begun to understand tobacco's effects. On January 11, 1868, HarpWeek published a two-picture political cartoon entitled The Pleasure of Tobacco. The first picture featured a young man in bed enjoying his pipe. The caption under the drawing said, To which young and promising Tom Smudger abandons himself. He wasteth the midnight...

  5. Pulaski Riot and Murders: Evidence of the KKK
    date January 11, 1868map GILES, Tennesseetags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    On January 11, 1868 Sub. Asst. Comr. Michael Walsh, a member of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedman, and Abandoned Lands, wrote a letter to his superiors discussing a recent riot in Pulaski, Tennessee. Walsh traveled to Tennessee on January the Ninth to investigate the riot, murder, and wounding of several men. He ultimately concluded that on January 7, 1868 a group of white men, formal...