• Family Life
• Aspirations: Land, Education, Vote
  IMAGE: Exoduster Handbill
  IMAGE: Black School During Reconstruction
  IMAGE: The First Black Voting
• Development of Tenancy and the Sharecropping System
  Sharecrop Contract (1862)

IV. KKK and "Redemption"

• Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan
• IMAGE: Alabama Klansmen, 1868

V. Election of 1876 and the end to Reconstruction

• IMAGE: Voting Map of 1876 Presidential Election

VI. Segregation

• The Racial Dividing Line in American Society
• Radical Reconstruction
  "A Plan for Confiscation" - Thaddeus Stevens
  "The Conquered Provinces" - Thaddeus Stevens
• KKK and "Redemption"
  Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan
• Segregation: "American Apartheid"
  from Plessy Vs. Ferguson (1896)
  Jim Crow Cars
  IMAGE: Segregated Busing
  IMAGE: Segregated Water Fountains
  IMAGE: Segregated Cafe Entrance
• Think of Southern System as Tri-Cornered

1.) Economic Dependency
2.) Violence
3.) Legal Segregation

VII. Women's Rights and Emancipation

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created: February 10, 2000
last updated: January 15, 2001

Copyright 2001, Mark Kornbluh