Negro Militia and Reconstruction

by Otis A. Singletary

Book Overview

Much of the violence that characterized Reconstruction was directly associated with the Negro militia movement organized by Radical politicians to support their precarious regimes in Southern states. This book is the story of that ill-fated movement, a story with important implication for later times.

Most Southern whites did not disguise their hostility toward the governments that were imposed on their states after Reconstruction entered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292741766
• ISBN13: 9780292741768
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"