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Book Reconstruction and the Arc of Racial  in Justice

Download or read book Reconstruction and the Arc of Racial in Justice written by Julian Maxwell Hayter and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays and commentary considers not merely how history has shaped the continuing struggle for racial equality, but also how backlash and resistance to racial reforms continue to dictate the state of race in America. Informed by a broad historical perspective, this book focuses primarily on the promise of Reconstruction, and the long demise of that promise. It traces the history of struggles for racial justice from the post US Civil War Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights and Voting Rights decades of the 1950s and 1960s to the present day.

Book No Holier Spot of Ground

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kristina Dunn Johnson
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2009-04-06
  • ISBN : 1614232822
  • Pages : 153 pages

Download or read book No Holier Spot of Ground written by Kristina Dunn Johnson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monuments of South Carolina bear on their weathered faces and cracked tablets a history of honor and of memory embodied in stone. Whether revealing the lost graves of Southern sons, unveiling the history of the only national cemetery to inter Confederate soldiers alongside the Union fallen during wartime or recording the simple obelisks that reach for heaven throughout the Palmetto State, this volume is a story of remembrance and of mourning. Kristina Dunn Johnson, curator of history with the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, shares with us the powerful stories of memory and acceptance that are the legacy of the Confederacy, as varied as those who lie beneath the Southern soil.

Book Grave Landscapes

    Book Details:
  • Author : James R. Cothran
  • Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
  • Release : 2018-01-31
  • ISBN : 1611177995
  • Pages : 391 pages

Download or read book Grave Landscapes written by James R. Cothran and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing urban populations prompted major changes in graveyard location, design, and use During the Industrial Revolution people flocked to American cities. Overcrowding in these areas led to packed urban graveyards that were not only unsightly, but were also a source of public health fears. The solution was a revolutionary new type of American burial ground located in the countryside just beyond the city. This rural cemetery movement, which featured beautifully landscaped grounds and sculptural monuments, is documented by James R. Cothran and Erica Danylchak in Grave Landscapes: The Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemetery Movement. The movement began in Boston, where a group of reformers that included members of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society were grappling with the city's mounting burial crisis. Inspired by the naturalistic garden style and melancholy-infused commemorative landscapes that had emerged in Europe, the group established a burial ground outside of Boston on an expansive tract of undulating, wooded land and added meandering roadways, picturesque ponds, ornamental trees and shrubs, and consoling memorials. They named it Mount Auburn and officially dedicated it as a rural cemetery. This groundbreaking endeavor set a powerful precedent that prompted the creation of similarly landscaped rural cemeteries outside of growing cities first in the Northeast, then in the Midwest and South, and later in the West. These burial landscapes became a cultural phenomenon attracting not only mourners seeking solace, but also urbanites seeking relief from the frenetic confines of the city. Rural cemeteries predated America's public parks, and their popularity as picturesque retreats helped propel America's public parks movement. This beautifully illustrated volume features more than 150 historic photographs, stereographs, postcards, engravings, maps, and contemporary images that illuminate the inspiration for rural cemeteries, their physical evolution, and the nature of the landscapes they inspired. Extended profiles of twenty-four rural cemeteries reveal the cursive design features of this distinctive landscape type prior to the American Civil War and its evolution afterward. Grave Landscapes details rural cemetery design characteristics to facilitate their identification and preservation and places rural cemeteries into the broader context of American landscape design to encourage appreciation of their broader influence on the design of public spaces.

Book Gas Age record

Download or read book Gas Age record written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Families of Russell Faulkner  Elijah Faulkner  and Eligah Melvin Faulkner of Edgefield District  South Carolina

Download or read book The Families of Russell Faulkner Elijah Faulkner and Eligah Melvin Faulkner of Edgefield District South Carolina written by Drew Glover Welch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a genealogical study of the families of Russell Faulkner (ca.1775-1840s) of Edgefield District, SC; his son Elijah Faulkner (1813-1896), and his grandson Eligah Melvin Faulkner (1858-1941). It includes death and marriage records, obituaries, deeds, grave inscriptions and over 230 census records. It covers over 237 years of the Faulkner family in Edgefield, Greenwood, McCormick, and Aiken Counties, South Carolina

Book Obiturary Record of Graduates

Download or read book Obiturary Record of Graduates written by Yale University and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Leverett Letters

Download or read book The Leverett Letters written by Frances Wallace Taylor and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Leverett's nine children wrote home frequently as they ventured from their South Carolina plantation to college, postgraduate study, travel in Europe and service in the Confederate Army. The 230 letters here paint a portrait of Southern life from the late antebellum era into Reconstruction.

Book Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University

Download or read book Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University written by Yale University and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book African Americans  Death  and the New Birth of Freedom

Download or read book African Americans Death and the New Birth of Freedom written by Ashley Towle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book examines how African Americans in the South made sense of the devastating loss of life unleashed by the Civil War and emancipation. During and after the war, African Americans died in vast numbers from battle, disease, and racial violence. While freedom was a momentous event for the formerly enslaved, it was also deadly. Through an investigation into how African Americans reacted to and coped with the passing away of loved ones and community members, Ashley Towle argues that freedpeople gave credence to their free status through their experiences with mortality. African Americans harnessed the power of death in a variety of arenas, including within the walls of national and private civilian cemeteries, in applications for widows’ pensions, in the pulpits of black churches, around séance tables, on the witness stand at congressional hearings, and in the columns of African American newspapers. In the process of mourning the demise of kith and kin, black people reconstituted their families, forged communal bonds, and staked claims to citizenship, civil rights, and racial justice from the federal government. In a society upended by civil war and emancipation, death was political.

Book Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University

Download or read book Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University written by Yale University and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Progressive Age

Download or read book Progressive Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes summaries of proceedings and addresses of annual meetings of various gas associations.

Book Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress

Download or read book Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress written by Ezra J. Warner, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1975-09-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modeled after Ezra J. Warner's two earlier books, Generals in Gray and Generals in Blue, the volume contains an introduction describing the makeup of the Confederate Congress, biographical sketches of the congressmen, and a substantial bibliography. Each biographical sketch includes the place and date of birth, family background, education, means of livelihood, politics, public service record, and degree of financial and political success of each congressman by 1860. The authors describe each individual's participation in (or his opposition to) secession and detail the circumstances of his election to the Confederate Congress. A prominent section of each sketch is devoted to each man's activities in the Congress: his position on the major issues before Congress, his chief interest and the measures he sponsored, and the reason he left the Congress. Then, the authors attempt to pick up the lives of each congressman after the Civil War. The sketches include the place and date of death of each man, as well as the place of burial. Anyone interested in Civil War history will find Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress an indispensable reference.

Book Off to War

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Page Johnson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book Off to War written by William Page Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look at Virginia participation in the Mexican War consisting of a history, muster rolls, and biographical information on each participant. J0767HB - $35.00

Book Soldiers from Kershaw County  Soldiers Who Left Kershaw County  Soldiers That Enlisted in Kershaw County  and Soldiers Who Came to Kershaw County After the War  and Died

Download or read book Soldiers from Kershaw County Soldiers Who Left Kershaw County Soldiers That Enlisted in Kershaw County and Soldiers Who Came to Kershaw County After the War and Died written by William Guerry Felder and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following is a compilation of soldiers using service records, rolls found in papers, in the commanding officer’s papers, obituaries, and newspaper accounts. No one can actually get all as some records may be lost or destroyed, names may be different due to spelling, the use of a nickname, or the same name with conflicting information detailing with two or more persons with same name and records combined. Some records may and are of the same soldier with different companies. This is due to the fact that after the first year, soldiers were given the option to stay with the current company or leave and join another and the combining of soldiers toward the end of the war. Another reason will be soldiers being discharged early in the war and rejoining another company later on in the war.

Book Norwich University  1819 1911  Her History  Her Graduates  Her Roll of Honor

Download or read book Norwich University 1819 1911 Her History Her Graduates Her Roll of Honor written by William Arba Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the Jacks Family of Alabama  North Carolina  and Maryland

Download or read book A History of the Jacks Family of Alabama North Carolina and Maryland written by Thomas Edward Jacks and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Jacks, son of Nicholas Jacks and Jane was born 27 October 1795 in Surry County, North Carolina. He married Rachel Johnson, daughter of William Johnson and Mary Parks, 16 June 1821. In 1827, David and Rachel, their son Thomas Mastin Jacks, and daughters Alzena and Jane Jacks, moved with other members of the Jacks clan to Jackson County, Alabama. David and Jane had six more sons in Alabama, namely: William Parks, Simeon Romulus, Jonathan Haynes, Nicholas, Hiram S., and Jerome C.H. Includes descendants to the fifth generation in Alabama, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Maryland, Florida, New Mexico, and elsewhere. Includes Jacks ancestry to ca. 1684 in Maryland.