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| Preface | |
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| The Historians' South | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Continuity of Southern History | |
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| The Search for Southern Identity | |
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| The Difficulty of Consensus on the South | |
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| The Three Souths | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Reconstructing the South | |
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| Documents | |
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| Mississippi Legislates Black Codes, 1865 | |
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| The Nation Ratifies Three Reconstruction Amendments:13, 14, and 15 | |
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| J. R. Johnson Preaches on Marriage Covenants and Legal Rights, 1866 | |
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| Congress Passes The Military Reconstruction Act, 1867 | |
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| The Northern Press Views the Enfranchisement of Freedmen, 1867 | |
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| A Southern Newspaper Denounces Reconstruction, 1869 | |
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| Congress Hears Testimony on the Ku Klux Klan, 1871 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Black Activism and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan | |
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| Terror in the Heart of Freedom | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Land and Labor in the New South | |
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| Documents | |
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| William Grimes Writes a Sharecropping Contract, 1882 | |
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| Alonzo T. Mial and A. Robert Medlin Sign A Crop Lien, 1876 | |
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| Nate Shaw Recounts His Story of Farming in Alabama (c. 1910), 1971 | |
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| William Alexander Percy Views Sharecropping, 1941 | |
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| William A. Owens Describes Tenant Farm Life in 1906 | |
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| Tenants and Farmers Assess the New South, 1887�1889 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Bound Labor in Southern Agriculture | |
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| Freedpeople Working for Themselves | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Mills, Workers, and the Myth of a New South | |
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| Documents | |
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| Henry W. Grady Boasts about the New South, 1886, 1889 | |
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| Broadus Mitchell Explains the Myth of the "Cotton Mill Campaign," 1921 | |
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| Mill Workers Comment on the New South, 1887, 1889 | |
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| A Black Entrepreneur Builds a Cotton Mill, 1896 | |
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| Lewis W. Hine Photographs Children Working in the Mills, 1908, 1909 | |
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| Bertha Miller Recalls Her Days as a Cotton Mill Girl (1915), 1984 | |
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| Map of the Piedmont Textile Mills, 1931 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Rise of Southern Industry | |
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| The Lives and Labors of the Cotton Mill People | |
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| Mills, Workers, and the Myth of a New South | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Southern Populist Movement | |
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| Documents | |
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| Texas Alliance Women Write to the Southern Mercury, 1888 | |
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| Farmers Describe the Crisis, 1890s | |
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| Farmers Create the Ocala Platform, 1890 | |
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| Tom Watson Devises a Strategy for Biracial Cooperation, 1892 | |
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| Populists "Got 'em on the Run," 1894 | |
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| A Populist Speaker Responds, 1898 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Alliances and Populists | |
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| Populists and the Shaping of a New Racial | |
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| Order | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Intimidation Effect: Disfranchisement, Segregation, and Violence | |
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| Documents | |
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| Lynching in the United States, 1882�1930 | |
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| Ida B. Wells Reports the Horrors of Lynching in the South, 1892 | |
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| Literacy Test and Poll Tax in North Carolina, 1899 | |
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| Black Leaders Fight Disfranchisement, 1895 | |
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| Democrats Fight Back: The White-Supremacy Campaign, 1898 | |
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| Mark Twain Writes "The United States of Lyncherdom," 1901 | |
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| Walter White Remembers the Atlanta Race Riot, 1906 | |
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| Alabama Continues Its Literacy Test until 1965 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Black Political Struggles | |
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| Trouble in Mind | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Southern Religion | |
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| Documents | |
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| Southerners Cherish Two Hymns | |
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| W. E. B. Du Bois Reflects on the Faith of the Fathers, 1903 | |
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| William Owens Remembers a Revival and Baptism in Texas, c. 1910 | |
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| Crisis Magazine Presents the Image of Jesus Christ in Georgia, 1911 | |
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| Rabbi Emmanuel Sternheim Explains the Mission of theChurch, 1914 | |
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| Lillian Smith Writes About God and Guilt, 1949 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Redeeming the South | |
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| The Southern Rite of Human Sacrifice | |
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| The Churches, "Redemption," and Jim Crow | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Southern Memory and History | |
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| Documents | |
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| Southerners Remember the Past, 1890 | |
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| Confederate General Jubal Early Memorializes the "LostCause," 1894 | |
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