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The Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in Mississippi

by William C. Harris. 760 pgs.

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Contributors:

   William C. Harris

Publisher:

   Louisiana State University Press

Place of Publication:

  Baton Rouge  

Publication Year:

  1979
Subjects:   Reconstruction--Mississippi, Mississippi--Politics And Government--1865-1950
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books on: (Reconstruction Mississippi) OR (Mississippi Politics And Government 1865 1950)  - 11798 results

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1.
Revolt of the Rednecks: Mississippi Politics: 1876-1925
Book by Albert D. Kirwan; Harper & Row, 1965
Subjects: African Americans--Mississippi, African Americans--Politics And Government, Mississippi--Politics And Government--1865-1950
...10 Jackson Daily Times , Nov. 1, 1876. 6 J. S. McNeily, "War and Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1863-1890," in Missis sippi Historical Society, Publications, Centenary Series, II 1918 , 165-535...
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The Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in Mississippi
Book by William C. Harris; Louisiana State University Press, 1979
Subjects: Mississippi--Politics And Government--1865-1950, Reconstruction--Mississippi
...p. Includes index. 1. Reconstruction -- Mississippi. 2. Mississippi -- Politics...that the minds of most Mississippians, both black and white, were...preoccupied with the politics of Reconstruction, however significant or...
3.
Multiparty Politics in Mississippi, 1877-1902
Book by Stephen Cresswell; University Press of Mississippi, 1995
Subjects: Mississippi--Politics And Government--1865-1950, Political Parties--Mississippi--History
...campaigns. In only four elections out of forty-four did Mississippi choose a non-Democrat for governor in the long span of years...majority of the seats during the brief period of congressional Reconstruction. Yet Mississippi elected only Democrats to Congress during...
4.
Mississippi Government & Politics: Modernizers versus Traditionalists
Book by Dale Krane, Stephen D. Shaffer; University of Nebraska Press, 1992
Subjects: Mississippi--Politics And Government
...2715-9 cl ISBN 0-8032-7758-x pbk.: alk. paper I. Mississippi--Politics and government. I. Shaffer, Stephen Daryl...society, shaped by slavery and then by the Civil War and Reconstruction, which con stituted the states most prominent formative...
5.
The Scalawag in Alabama Politics, 1865-1881
Book by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins; University of Alabama Press, 1991
Subjects: African Americans--Alabama--History--19th Century, Alabama--Politics And Government--1865-1950, Reconstruction--Alabama, Republican Party (Ala.)--History--19th Century
...was active in Alabama politics first as a Whig and then...wise choice, for as one government inspector in Alabama...proclamation of May 29, 1865, and persons excluded...convention resembled the Mississippi convention more than that...dominance of Alabama politics, this reapportionment...power. Had the Johnson government in Alabama survived...revised constitution of 1865 by the same method the...suggested that Presidential Reconstruction was in trouble. In 1866...
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journal articles on: (Reconstruction Mississippi) OR (Mississippi Politics And Government 1865 1950)  - 1111 results

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1.
Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877-1917
Journal article by Martha H. Swain; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 73, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi After Reconstruction, 1877-1917 (Book)--Book reviews
...first to cover a fixed chronological period, in this case, the era between the end of Reconstruction and the U.S. entry into World War I. Mississippians seemingly should have pressed for permanent improvements that matched advancements elsewhere...
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Marriage Plots and National Reunion: The Trope of Romantic Reconciliation in Postbellum Literature(*)
Journal article by Karen A. Keely; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 51, 1998
Subjects: American fiction--19th century, Marriage in literature--History, Reconstruction--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Romances--Political aspects, United States history--1865-1921
...versions of this article. The anonymous reviewer for the Mississippi Quarterly also had many helpful suggestions for improving...701; Michael Kreyling, "After the War: Romance and the Reconstruction of Southern Literature," in Southern Literature in Transition...
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The Discourse of Law in Time of War: Politics and Professionalism during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Journal article by Norman W. Spaulding; William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 46, 2005
Subjects: American Reconstruction, 1865-1877--Influence, Civil war--Influence, Postwar reconstruction--Influence, Practice of law--Management
...province, no longer had "republican" governments under the Guarantee Clause, and had...less political footing. (267) His 1865 and 1866 lectures are especially...lashes out at his peers for allowing politics and conditions on the ground to corrupt...differ widely," (269) Parker began his 1865 lecture by insisting that "whether...traitors. The General Government cannot by reason of such treason...permitted to reorganize their State governments. And this is revolution, thus...
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Spencer's Voice at the Back Door and the Legacy of Reconstruction
Journal article by Sally Greene; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2005
Subjects: American Reconstruction, 1865-1877--Influence, American Reconstruction, 1865-1877--Political aspects, American Reconstruction, 1865-1877--Social aspects, Race relations--Portrayals, Spencer, Elizabeth--Criticism and interpretation, The Voice at the Back Door (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...only be "an acknowledgment of incapacity for legal government" ("The Carrollton Outrage"). Indeed it was just...suppressed: that was the "fundamental condition" of Mississippis readmission to the Union in 1870. (29) But sixteen...that more vividly reveals the fault lines of racial politics in small-town Mississippi as they persisted from...Charles. The Color Line in Mississippi Politics, 1865-1915. Diss. U of Kentucky, 1967. Ann Arbor: UMI...citing Vernon L. Whartons The Negro in Mississippi 1865-1890--a source she learned about from historian...was violent, as Williamson notes. "A part of the Mississippi Plan of 1875 was to claim during the election campaign...later, "Mississippi became the seat of a white mans government" (Wharton 198). (24) Untitled editorial, 10 Oct...
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Suffrage Restriction in Post-Reconstruction Texas: Urban Politics and the Specter of the Commune
Journal article by Patrick G. Williams; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 68, 2002
Subjects: Political rights, Loss of--Social aspects, Social history--Analysis, Southern States--History, Texas--History, United States history, 1865-1901, United States history--1865-1898, Voting--History
...and Free Labor in Texas, 1865," Journal of Southern History...and Texas Reconstruction Politics, 1871-1874," Southwestern...thesis, Rice University, 1950). (49) GDN, February 25...Southern Politics, 201-4; Barr, Reconstruction to Reform, 196; Rice, Negro...City Politics: Atlanta, 1865-1903 (Westport, Conn., and...Kousser, Shaping of Southern Politics, 155-56; and Lynette Boney Wrenn, Crisis and Commission Government in Memphis: Elite Rule in...
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magazine articles on: (Reconstruction Mississippi) OR (Mississippi Politics And Government 1865 1950)  - 271 results

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1.
Mississippi Economic Outlook: Reconstruction Boom to Propel Economy
Magazine article by Marianne T. Hill; Business Perspectives, Vol. 17, Spring 2006
Subjects: Economic forecasting, Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Economic aspects, Hurricanes--Economic aspects, Hurricanes--Mississippi, Mississippi--Economic aspects, Post-disaster reconstruction
Mississippi Economic Outlook: Reconstruction Boom to Propel Economy...is that insured losses in Mississippi will be about $9.9 billion...losses, which include much of government-owned property as well as...br/ Figure 2. Mississippi Employment Projections Average...br/ Government 1.0...
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The Road to Recovery along the Gulf Coast: After Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi and Alabama Residents Are Rebuilding Their Lives and Communities
Magazine article by Tracey Robinson-English; Ebony, Vol. 61, September 2006
Subjects: Alabama--Economic aspects, Alabama--Social aspects, Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Economic aspects, Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Social aspects, Hurricanes--Alabama, Hurricanes--Economic aspects, Hurricanes--Mississippi, Hurricanes--Social aspects, Mississippi--Economic aspects, Mississippi--Social aspects, Post-disaster reconstruction--Forecasts and trends
...Grand Bay and Dauphin Island, and Mississippis Moss Point, Biloxi, Gulfport, Pass...partially reopened and vow to complete reconstruction. Overall some 400,000 jobs have been...paying much less than homeowners need, government officials say. Consequently, the state of Mississippi and thousands of flooded-out policyholders...
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Reconstructing the American South-After Katrina; Jim Downs Finds That the Reasons the Federal Government Was Slow to Respond to Hurricane Katrina Are Rooted in the South's Racial and Economic History, and Wonders If the Catastrophe May Lead at Last to Genuine Reconstruction
Magazine article by Jim Downs; History Today, Vol. 56, January 2006
Subjects: Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Economic aspects, Louisiana--Demographic aspects, Louisiana--Economic aspects, Louisiana--Environmental aspects, Mississippi--Demographic aspects, Mississippi--Economic aspects, Mississippi--Environmental aspects, Post-disaster reconstruction--Forecasts and trends, Race discrimination--Forecasts and trends, Race discrimination--History
...and Wonders If the Catastrophe May Lead at Last to Genuine Reconstruction. by Jim Downs THE CHAOS THAT STRUCK THE GULF...is little historical precedent for what is unfolding in Mississippi, Louisiana and, more recently, Texas, and that a new mode...
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Mississippi Economic Outlook: Countdown to Take-Off
Magazine article by Marianne T. Hill; Business Perspectives, Vol. 18, Winter 2007
Subjects: Economic development--Forecasts and trends, Economic development--Mississippi, Economic indicators--Forecasts and trends, Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Economic aspects, Mississippi--Economic aspects
...Marianne T. Hill Mississippis economy is back on track...Katrina levels, and a reconstruction boom is anticipated for...major damage (see the Mississippi Economic Review and Outlook...of other business and government structures. While casinos...br/ Chart 5. Mississippi Employment Projections...br/ Government 0.8...
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Mississippi Gambles: The Carpetbaggers Are Back
Magazine article by Ben C. Toledano; National Review, Vol. 49, April 7, 1997
Subjects: Casinos--Mississippi, Gambling industry--Mississippi, Mississippi
...control over individuals, communities, and local and state governments. In Mississippi, small-town career politicians with limited formal education...businesslike manner. Not only are state and local governments receiving legal payoffs, the local Scalawags, once far...so can former state officials. In fact, right now in Mississippi there are three former state Supreme Court justices...
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Mississippi Builds Davis Library and Museum
Newspaper article by Edward C. Smith; The Washington Times, February 22, 1997
Subjects: Davis, Jefferson, Mississippi
...brought about a revolution that changed the complexion of Mississippi politics forever. When I asked if there were any protests...convinced that slavery was our nations holocaust. During Reconstruction and beyond, blacks in Mississippi suffered far more virulent...
2.
3 Governorships on Line This Fall; Mississippi Race Looks like Tossup
Newspaper article by Donald Lambro; The Washington Times, September 12, 1999
Subjects: Mississippi, Parker, Mike, Republican Party
...Kirk Fordice, the first Republican governor in Mississippi since Reconstruction. Term limits in the state prohibit Mr. Fordice...the Republican National Committee. If the Mississippi contest is up for grabs, there is virtually...
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Adelbert Ames Leads Attack on South's Last Open Port; He Also Supports Blacks as Governor of Mississippi
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 28, 2007
Subjects: African Americans--Military aspects, Ames, Adelbert
...who was then a member of the House of Representatives for Massachusetts. Ames returned to Mississippi and again became governor as a Reconstruction Republican. But as the state election of 1875 approached, the Democrats organized an armed...
4.
Slow to Accept Defeat, Texas Fought Reconstruction
Newspaper article by Bruce Brager; The Washington Times, July 18, 1998
Subjects: Texas
...accept defeat, Texas fought Reconstruction by Bruce Brager...Confederate army west of the Mississippi, under Gen. Edmund Kirby...wanting to resist the federal government after the war. Reagan...Monroe" letter of Aug. 11, 1865 (written while in prison...will be deprived of a civil government of your own choice." Reagan...from Fort Monroe in October 1865. His letter, he said in...
5.
Politics and Reconstruction; Cynicism and Ideology Dominate
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 21, 2005
...current politics, that President Bushs proposal for the reconstruction of New Orleans and the other devastated Gulf communities...accordingly? It is manifestly impossible for Louisiana (and Mississippi) to handle their crises. They were two of the poorest states...
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Mississippi , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Faulkner ) and at Jackson; Mississippi State Univ., at Mississippi State; the Univ. of Southern Mississippi, at Hattiesburg...Confederate forces of Gen. N. B. Forrest, remained active. Reconstruction After the war Mississippi abolished slavery but refused...
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Reconstruction
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...he issued (Dec. 8, 1863) a proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction for those areas of the Confederacy occupied by Union armies...Confederate debts. Their newly elected legislatures (except Mississippi) ratified the Thirteenth Amendment guaranteeing freedom...
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Alabama , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ceded (1783) to the United States all lands east of the Mississippi except the Floridas (see West Florida Controversy ). The...governor; two years later it became a state. Civil War and Reconstruction In Alabama the slave-owning planters were dominant because...
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West Virginia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Growth and Estrangement from Eastern Virginia Population growth and prosperity were spurred by the opening of the Mississippi River with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, by the resulting expansion and improvement of river-borne commerce, and by...
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Louisiana
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and Plaquemines line the lower Mississippi River. Tourism is increasingly important to the...the area around St. Martinville and Lafayette. Government, Politics, and Higher Education Louisiana has had 11 constitutions...slaves (more than half the population) dominated politics and largely controlled the state. The Civil War...by new railroad building and the opening of the Mississippi River for oceangoing vessels from New Orleans to...disastrous flood of 1927, however, that the federal government undertook a vast control system. The water resources...
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