Major problems in the history of the american south, volume 2

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series introduces readers to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. The collection of essays and documents in MAJOR PROBLEMS IN THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH provides a comprehensive view of the culture of the American South as well as its political,social, and economic history. The documents are grouped with important secondary sources, accompanied by chapter introductions, selection headnotes, and suggested readings. INDICE: Note: Each chapter concludes with Further Reading. 1. THE HISTORIANS' SOUTH? Essays. W. J. Cash, The Continuity of Southern History. C. Vann Woodward, The Search for Southern Identity. John B. Boles, The Difficulty of Consensus on the South. John Shelton Reed, The Three Souths. 2. RECONSTRUCTING THESOUTH. Documents. 1. Mississippi Legislates Black Codes, 1865. 2. The Nation Ratifies Three Reconstruction Amendments: 13 (1865), 14 (1868), and 15 (1870).3. J.R. Johnson Preaches on Marriage Covenants and Legal Rights, 1866. 4. Congress Passes the Military Reconstruction Act, 1867. 5. The Northern Press Views the Enfranchisement of Freedmen, 1867: "We Accept the Situation" by Thomas Nast; "A Jury of Blacks and Whites" by James E. Taylor; "The First Vote" by A. R. Waud. 6. A Southern Newspaper Denounces Reconstruction, 1869. 7. Congress Hears Testimony on the Ku Klux Klan, 1871. Essays. Eric Foner, Black Activism and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan. Stephen Budiansky, The Hamburg Massacre, July1876. 3. LAND AND LABOR IN THE NEW SOUTH. Documents. 1. William Grimes Writesa Sharecropping Contract, 1882. 2. Alonzo T. Mial and A. Robert Medlin Sign aCrop Lien, 1876. 3. Nate Shaw Recounts His Story of Farming in Alabama (c. 1910), 1971. 4. William Alexander Percy Views Sharecropping, 1941. 5. William A.Owens Describes Tenant Farm Life in 1906. 6. Tenants and Farmers Assess the New South, 1887-1889. Essays. Jonathan M. Wiener, Bound Labor in Southern Agriculture. Sharon Ann Holt, Freedpeople Working for Themselves. 4. MILLS, WORKERS, AND THE MYTH OF A NEW SOUTH. Documents. 1. Henry W. Grady Boasts About the New South, 1886, 1889. 2. Broadus Mitchell Explains the Myth of the "Cotton Mill Campaign," 1921. 3. Mill Workers Comment on the New South, 1887, 1889. 4. A Black Entrepreneur Builds a Cotton Mill, 1896. 5 Lewis Hine Photographs Children Working in the Mills, 1908, 1909. 6. Bertha Miller Recalls Her Days as a Cotton Mill Girl (1915), 1984. 7. Map of the Piedmont Textile Mills, 1931. Essays. C. Vann Woodward, The Rise of Southern Industry. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Robert Korstad, and James L. Leloudis II, The Lives and Labors. of the Cotton-Mill People. Bryant Simon, Mills, Workers, and the Myth of a New South. 5. THE SOUTHERN POPULIST MOVEMENT. Documents. 1. Texas Alliance Women Write to the Southern Mercury, 1888. 2. Farmers Describe the Crisis, 1890s. 3 Farmers Create the Ocala Platform, 1890. 4 Tom Watson Devises a Strategy for Biracial Cooperation, 1892. 5. Populists "Got 'em on the Run," 1894. 6. A Populist Speaker Responds, 1898. Essays. Edward Ayers, Alliances and Populists. Charles Postel, Populists and the Shaping of a New Racial Order. 6. THE INTIMIDATION EFFECT: DISENFRANCHISEMENT, SEGREGATION, AND VIOLENCE. Documents. 1. Lynching in the United States, 1882-1930. 2. Ida B. Wells Reports the Horrors of Lynching in the South, 1892. 3. Literacy Test and Poll Tax in North Carolina, 1899. 4. Black Leaders Fight Disfranchisement, 1895. 5. Democrats Fight Back: The White-Supremacy Campaign, 1898: "The Duty of White Men Today"; "The Fusion Candidate for the Senate in Edgecombe County"; "More Negro Scoundrelism"; "The Vampire That HoversOver North Carolina." 6. Mark Twain Writes "The United States of Lyncherdom,"1901. 7. Walter White Remembers the Atlanta Race Riot, 1906. 8. Alabama Continues Its Literacy Test until 1965. Essays. Steven Hahn, Black Political Struggles. Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind. 7. SOUTHERN RELIGION. Documents. 1. Southerners Cherish Two Hymns: "Steal Away to Jesus," A Negro Spiritual, N.D.; "Whenthe Roll Is Called Up Yonder," 1901. 2. W. E. B. Du Bois Reflects on the Faith of the Fathers, 1903. 3. William Owens Remembers a Revival and Baptism in Texas, c. 1910. 4. Crisis Magazine Presents the Image of Jesus Christ in Georgia, 1911. 5. Rabbi Emmanuel Sternheim Explains the Mission of the Church, 1914. 6. Lillian Smith Writes about God and Guilt, 1949. Essays. Paul Harvey, Redeeming the South. Donald G. Matthews, The Southern Rite of Human Sacrifice. Mark Noll, The Churches, "Redemption," and Jim Crow. 8. SOUTHERN MEMORY AND HISTORY. Documents. 1. Southerners Remember the Past, 1890: "Juneteenth Celebration in San Antonio, 1890"; "Robert E. Lee Monument, Richmond, VA, 1890". 2. Confederate General Jubal Early Memorializes the Lost Cause, 1894. 3. United Daughters of the Confederacy Prepare a Catechism for Children, 1912. 4. The U.D.C. Raises a Monument to the Confederacy, Depicting a Soldier and Mammy in Arlington Cemetery, 1914. 5. Mammy Cartoon, 1923. 6. Katherine Du Pre Lumpkin Recounts her Childhood with the Lost Cause, 1946. Essays. David Blight, The Lost Cause and Causes Not Lost. W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Celebrating Black Memory in the Postbellum South. Micki McElya, The National Mammy Monument Controversy of the 1920s. 9. THE PROGRESSIVE SOUTH IN THE AGE OF JIM CROW. Documents. 1. Booker T. Washington Gives the Atlanta Compromise Speech, 1895. 2. W. E. B. Du Bois Denounces Washington's Accommodationist Policies, 1903. 3. Mamie Garvin Fields Remembers When Mary Church Terrell Spoke on the Role of Modern Woman, c. 1916. 4. Charles W. Dabney Proposes Change for the Public Schools in the South, 1901. 5. Edgar Gardner Murphy Denounces Child Labor in Alabama, 1901. 6. Hoke Smith'sGubernatorial Address Touches on Education, 1907. 7. The Southern Sociological Congress Creates an Agenda for Reforming the South, 1914. 8. AntisuffragistsRaise the Race Issue, c. 1915. 9. Annie Webb Blanton Runs for State Office, 1918. 10. Map Shows Change in Voter Turnout after Suffrage, 1920. Essays. William Link, The Paradox of Southern Progressivism. Lorraine Schuyler, Now You Smell the Perfume: Women Voters in the South. 10. IN SEARCH OF THE MODERN SOUTH. Documents. 1. H. L. Menck

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