Class Schedule
Week 14 (April 28-May 4)
Tuesday, April 30
Topics of Discussion:
An Image of the South
Before, During, and After: Gone with the Wind
Reconstruction under
Grant
Readings:
John Childers' Testimony
before the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in
the Late Insurrectionary States (1871)
Memorial from the State
Convention of Alabama Negroes (1874) )
Ordeal by Fire,
pp. 583-615
Thursday, May 2
Topics of Discussion:
Social and Economic
Reconstruction
The Retreat from Reconstruction
and the Compromise of 1877 (Student-led
Discussion)
Readings:
Henry
Grady, "The New South" Speech (December 22, 1886)
Frederick
Douglass, "Address to the Louisville Convention" (1883)
Ordeal by Fire,
pp. 617-659
Food
for Thought for Week 14
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by Hugh Dubrulle, 2002
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