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Assignment:

Focuses on Reconstruction, the time period after the Civil War when the federal government thought it was important to be actively involved in the transition of the formerly enslaved population to free citizens of the United States of America. Rather quickly, though, the federal government changed their priorities and chose to court white Southern Democrats, many of whom had not accepted nor ever intended to accept black men and women as their equals "under the law," as the 14th Amendment argued.

Questions

What arguments does Reverend J.L. Moore use to show the similarities among white and black labor interests? Why do you think more whites did not join in such an alliance? How is the exploitation of agricultural workers tied to their limited access to landownership? How is Moore's entry similar to the anonymous report of the riot in Louisiana and to the Reverend Ernest Lyon's statement about KKK violence? How and why did Congress fail to provide "protection at the ballot box" for African Americans?