African Americans in the Reconstruction EraThis ethnographic study explores the status of African Americans during the Reconstruction era, examining the particularities of such topics as race relations, social systems, legal systems, and economic and political status. Rather than dealing with the status of African Americans as an isolated human rights issue, Gao examines the African American role in American society in the context of American society, particularly paying attention to the intellectual roots of the belief system of white and black Americans during the Reconstruction. |
Contents
The Origins of Discrimination against African | 1 |
Issues Affecting African Americans and African | 59 |
Issues Affecting African Americans and White | 119 |
African American Issues and Congressional | 169 |
The Withering of the New Democracy | 219 |
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