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Understanding Primary Sources: Civil Rights: Essays and Speeches
Understanding Primary Sources: Civil Rights: Essays and Speeches
Understanding Primary Sources: Civil Rights: Essays and Speeches
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Drawn from Gale’s acclaimed Reference Library products, this concise study guide helps you explore central ideas of primary sources in their historical context. Profiles of the authors and surrounding events; timelines and images; engaging research, discussion and activity ideas; “Did you know?” facts; and additional features make this guide valuable for students and lifelong learners. Primary sources covered: excerpt from Reconstruction (Frederick Douglass); excerpt from "Argument for the Impeachment of President Johnson” (Charles Sumner): excerpt from "On the Readmission of Georgia to the Union" (Hiram Revels); excerpt from his speech on the Civil Rights Bill of 1875 (James Rapier); and Rutherford B. Hayes, excerpt from his Inaugural Address.
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Release dateAug 31, 2017
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    Understanding Primary Sources: Reconstruction

    Civil Rights: Essays and Speeches

    Understanding Primary Sources: Reconstruction

    Civil Rights: Essays and Speeches

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    Contents

    Reader's Guide

    Reconstruction Era Timeline

    Frederick Douglass: Excerpt from Reconstruction

    Charles Sumner: Excerpt from Argument for the Impeachment of President Johnson

    Hiram Revels: Excerpt from On the Readmission of Georgia to the Union

    James Rapier: Excerpt from his speech on the Civil Rights Bill of 1875

    Rutherford B. Hayes: Excerpt from his Inaugural Address

    Reader's Guide

    Understanding Primary Sources: Reconstruction tells the story of the Reconstruction era in the words of the people who lived and shaped it and the laws that contributed to it. The Reconstruction era was the period stretching roughly from the end of the American Civil War in April 1865 to the inauguration of President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877. Reconstruction was a federal policy intended to restore the relationship between the former Confederate states and the federal Union, to oversee the transition of the newly freed slaves into citizens, and to help convert the Southern economy from one based on slave labor to one based on paid labor. Reconstruction officially ended following the resolution to the controversial presidential election of 1876 in which an electoral commission declared Hayes the victor, just days before he was inaugurated in March 1877. The new president had federal troops removed from the former Confederate region in the South to bring an end to the Reconstruction era.

    Coverage and features

    Reconstruction's complete or excerpted documents provide a wide range of perspectives on this period of history. Included among its 3 volumes (Legislation and Key Amendments; Civil Rights: Essays and Speeches; and Reactions in the South) are excerpts from abolitionist Frederick Douglass's famous article about Reconstruction, Frances Butler Leigh's account of life after slavery as the daughter of a plantation owner, former slave John Paterson Green's experiences with the Ku Klux Klan, and U.S. senator Charles Sumner's argument in favor of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.

    Each document presented in Understanding Primary Sources: Reconstruction includes the following additional material:

    An introduction places the document and its author in historical context.

    Things to remember while reading … offers readers important background information and directs them to central ideas in the text.

    What happened next … provides an account of subsequent events, both in Reconstruction and in the life of the author.

    Did you know … provides significant and interesting facts about the document, the author, or the events discussed.

    Consider the following … gives students and teachers research and activity ideas that pertain to the subject of the document.

    For more information… lists sources for further reading on the author, the topic, or the document.

    Understanding Primary Sources: Reconstruction also features sidebars containing interesting facts about people and events related to each primary source document considered, along with historical photographs and a Reconstruction Era Timeline that lists significant dates and events associated with Reconstruction.

    Reconstruction Era Timeline

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