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FORGOTTEN SOUTHERNERS: THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BLACKS AND POOR WHITES DURING RECONSTRUCTION

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1972
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This was written as a beginning study of the relationships between blacks and poor whites during Reconstruction. The heritage of slavery is discussed as a prerequisite for understanding later developments. A brief synopsis of Reconstruction is included. The last chapters concern the actual relations between blacks and poor whites. Reasons for the inability of these two groups to ally and cooperate lie in the low opinion each had for the other and the inability of poor whites to allow the Negro a measure of equality. For the poor white the Negro was too much a threat as an equal. As a result violence, intimidation and suppression were practiced by poor whites against blacks and their white Republican allies, until the South was finally redeemed by white Democrats and southern demagogues.
Title: THE FORGOTTEN SOUTHERNERS: THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BLACKS AND POOR WHITES DURING RECONSTRUCTION.
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Name(s): SIDDALL, YVONNE ROBENA.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Curl, Donald W., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1972
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 191 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This was written as a beginning study of the relationships between blacks and poor whites during Reconstruction. The heritage of slavery is discussed as a prerequisite for understanding later developments. A brief synopsis of Reconstruction is included. The last chapters concern the actual relations between blacks and poor whites. Reasons for the inability of these two groups to ally and cooperate lie in the low opinion each had for the other and the inability of poor whites to allow the Negro a measure of equality. For the poor white the Negro was too much a threat as an equal. As a result violence, intimidation and suppression were practiced by poor whites against blacks and their white Republican allies, until the South was finally redeemed by white Democrats and southern demagogues.
Identifier: 13492 (digitool), FADT13492 (IID), fau:10337 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1972.
Subject(s): Reconstruction (US history, 1865-1877)--Southern States
Southern States--Race relations
Southern States--History--1865-1877
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