Author: Carl H. MoneyhonPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585441723
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Republicanism Reconstruction Tx
Author: Carl H. MoneyhonPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585441723
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Texas After The Civil War
Author: Carl H. MoneyhonPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585443628
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Moneyhon looks at the reasons Reconstruction failed to live up to its promise.
Edmund J. Davis of Texas
Author: Carl H. MoneyhonPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 0875657508
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Volume two of The Texas Biography Series reveals Edmund J. Davis, the heroic man who stood in strong opposition to his peers and better reflected the ideals of the nation than those of so many of his contemporaries. Carl H. Moneyhon presents a long overdue favorable account of a man who was determined to make progressive changes and stand in stark opposition to the state’s political elite. What moved this man to take such a dramatic stand against his political peers? Moneyhon strives to answer this very question. Edmund J. Davis was not only a part of the political elite during the Civil War, but he also opposed secession. He refused to follow most of Texas’ leaders and actively opposed the Confederacy by attempting to bring Texas back to the Union. After the war, Davis was a leader in reconstructing the state based on true free labor and pursued progressive and egalitarian policies as governor of Texas. Through the entire reconstruction process Davis faced extreme Confederate hostility. After leaving the governor’s mansion an unpopular man and politician, he still remained dedicated to changing Texas. He worked to change his adopted state until the day he died.
The Union League and Biracial Politics in Reconstruction Texas
Author: Carl H. MoneyhonPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623499577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
The Republican Union League of America played a major role in the Southern Reconstruction that followed the American Civil War. A secret organization introduced into Texas in 1867 to mobilize newly enfranchised black voters, it was the first political body that attempted to secure power by forming a biracial coalition. Originally intended by white Unionists simply to marshal black voters to their support, it evolved into an organization that allowed blacks to pursue their own political goals. It was abandoned by the state’s Republican Party following the 1871 state elections. From the beginning the use of the league by the Republican party proved controversial. While its opponents charged that its white leadership simply manipulated ignorant blacks to achieve power for themselves, ultimately encouraging racial conflict, the League not only educated blacks in their new political rights but also protected them in the exercise of those rights. It gave blacks a voice in supporting the legislative program of Gov. Edmund J. Davis, helping him to push through laws aimed at the maintenance of law and order, securing basic civil rights for blacks, and the creation of public schools. Ultimately, its success and its secrecy provoked hostile attacks from political opponents, leading the party to stop using it. Nonetheless, the Union League created a legacy of black activism that lasted throughout the nineteenth century and pushed Texas toward a remarkably different world from the segregated and racist one that developed after the league disappeared.
Grass Roots Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-1880
Author: Randolph B. CampbellPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807141618
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
George T. Ruby
Author: Carl H. MoneyhonPublisher: Texas Christian University Press
ISBN: 9780875657486
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"This is the biography of George T. Ruby, an African American statesman who was active in Texas politics and fought for equal rights for black freedmen in Reconstruction Texas"--
Reconstruction in Texas
Author: Charles William RamsdellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Presents an outline of a period in Texas history that has left a deep impress upon the later history, the political organization and the public mind of Texans.
The Doom of Reconstruction
Author: Andrew L. SlapPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823227111
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In the Election of 1872 the conflict between President U. S. Grant and Horace Greeley has been typically understood as a battle for the soul of the ruling Republican Party. In this innovative study, Andrew Slap argues forcefully that the campaign was more than a narrow struggle between Party elites and a class-based radical reform movement. The election, he demonstrates, had broad consequences: in their opposition to widespread Federal corruption, Greeley Republicans unintentionally doomed Reconstruction of any kind, even as they lost the election. Based on close readings of newspapers, party documents, and other primary sources, Slap confronts one of the major questions in American political history: How, and why, did Reconstruction come to an end? His focus on the unintended consequences of Liberal Republican politics is a provocative contribution to this important debate.
Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968
Author: Boris HeersinkPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107158435
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Traces how the Republican Party in the South after Reconstruction transformed from a biracial organization to a mostly all-white one.
Reconstruction to Reform
Author: Alwyn BarrPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description