Southern United States

the war, while leaving the South triumphant in the battle of reconstruction, and leaving the United States as a whole in a tentative state of conciliation. The events that led up to the Civil War had stemmed from the deprecation of the South’s control over the government. The three-fifths clause that the Southerners…

1865 was the start of a brand new period in American history; Reconstruction. After the Civil War, the United States was left in ruins so the North helped the South rebuild and make it easier for them to rejoin the Union. Northerners and Republicans tried to help, but their efforts weren 't very successful. Reconstruction was a failure. During Reconstruction, African Americans gained many rights , but these rights didn 't last very long. Their voting rights were restricted, segregation laws were…

issue in the South during Reconstruction Period. Whereas, most southern White people were not satisfied because of freedom for African Americans. Many freedmen could use their liberty as whole, as they could reunite with their families and claim their independence from their former masters. They even get their land back while on the other hand, many white southerners tried to murder, lynching and…

Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” tells the story of a woman named Emily Grierson that has a mental illness to which she lives in the South where a rigid lifestyle will determine the expectations regarding a person’s behavior and the way society will them. Miss Emily is the daughter of a wealthy upper-class gentleman who is influential to the community. Many accommodations are made for Miss Emily’s extraordinary behaviors due to Mr. Grierson’s standing within his community. Miss Emily’s marriage to…

At the end of reconstruction, Southern whites wanted to recreate the image of the south as tolerate and humane. This ideology is known as the “lost cause” the lost cause states that the civil war was fought in order to maintain states’ rights and protect the family. The idea of states’ rights being the reason for the civil war created an image of the south as tolerate. As well as restored the souths feeling of bravery, rebellion, and resistance against the national government. The creation of…

The Great Migration was a massive movement of African Americans from the South of the United States to the North with the largest amount coming in 1915 to 1920 of over 500,000 Blacks. African Americans left the miserable condition of the South that included low wages, racism, and horrible violence, and headed up to “The Promised Land” of the North where it was believed they could find refuge or even start over again. Black Protest and the Great Migration by Eric Arnesen is a history of documents…

African Americans in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century As the Civil War came to and end in eighteen sixty five, the United States had to face the challenge of reintegrating both the formerly slaved population and the formerly white slave owners back into the country in an era that came to be known as Reconstruction era. However, by eighteen seventy-seven as US forces were removed from the South, the Southerners found new ways to exercise their dominance through acts of violence and…

Terror tactics are used by supreme groups of White Americans who want to remain in control of the black slaves. Woodward notes, “Racism was conceived of by some as the very foundation of Southern progressivism” (91). There are civil rights groups that are struggling to have equal platform for both the whites and the blacks, yet some of the noble whites do not accept and support the initiatives. This leads to a slow realization of the changes…

struggle organizations began to emerge, one led by Martin Luther King, was the Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), another formed by young students was the the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), all organizations slowly expanded, as well as the organization of black Americans: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). The Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent…

delivers a story about injustice in a very unapologetic manner that forces the reader to acknowledge the injustice that African Americans faced. Using a fictional story that mirrors real life events, Harper Lee exposes how prevalent racism was in southern…