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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777527003321

Autore

Clark Kathleen Ann

Titolo

Defining moments [[electronic resource] ] : African American commemoration & political culture in the South, 1863-1913 / / Kathleen Ann Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005

ISBN

979-88-908742-8-3

0-8078-7680-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Disciplina

975/.00496073

Soggetti

African Americans - Southern States - Anniversaries, etc

Enslaved persons - Emancipation - United States - Anniversaries, etc

African Americans - History - 1863-1877

African Americans - History - 1877-1964

African Americans - Southern States - Politics and government

Political culture - Southern States - History - 19th century

Political culture - Southern States - History - 20th century

Southern States Politics and government 1865-1950

Southern States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-294) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Language that cannot be misunderstood : African American commemoration, 1863-1913 -- The vanguard of liberty must look into the past : celebrations of freedom -- A resurrection of manhood : gendered reconstruction -- Has emancipation been a failure? : the end of Reconstruction -- Signs of the times : making progress in the post-Reconstruction South -- Bosoms filled with hope : collective representation in the age of Jim Crow.

Sommario/riassunto

The historical memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction has earned increasing attention from scholars. Only recently, however, have historians begun to explore African American efforts to interpret those events. With Defining Moments, Kathleen Clark shines new light on African American commemorative traditions in the South, where events



such as Emancipation Day and Fourth of July ceremonies served as opportunities for African Americans to assert their own understandings of slavery, the Civil War, and Emancipation--efforts that were vital to the struggles to define, assert, and defend