Reconstructing Reconstruction
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A reduced version of Kelly's large print "The Fifteenth Amendment, Celebrated May 19th 1870"
"The Irrepressible Conflict" 1866. Sketched by A.R. Waud in Charleston S.C.
"The Color Line is Broken" Harpers Weekly, Dec. 8, 1877
"The Emancipation of the Negroes, January, 1863—The Past and the Future," Harper's Weekly, Jan. 24, 1863
Anti-Freedman's Bureau Campaign Ad, Pennsylvania, 1866
“Colored Rule in a Reconstructed State.” Printed in Harper’s Weekly March 14, 1874
Harpers Weekly, March 29, 1879
Thomas Nast, “This is a White Man’s Government,” Harper’s Weekly, September 5, 1868. “We regard the Reconstruction Acts (so called) of Congress as usurpations, and unconstitutional, revolutionary, and void.” – Democratic Platform.
"The Ignorant Vote" Harpers Weekly, Dec. 9, 1876
"Louisiana State Constitutional Convention Delegates," 1868.
"Hamburg Riots" 1876.
"He wants a change too" Harpers Weekly, 1876
"Pardon: Shall I trust these men" Harpers Weekly, Aug. 5, 1865
"The Union as it was, The lost cause, worse than slavery" Thomas Nast. 1876.
"Negro Suffrage" Poster, 1866.
Franchise: "And Not This Man"
Nathaniel Bedford Forrest High School's Cheerleading Team