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Author: Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2002-01-09
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781585441723
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2002-01-09
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781585441723
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781585443628
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Moneyhon looks at the reasons Reconstruction failed to live up to its promise.
Author: Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2019-04-18
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 0875657508
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume two of The Texas Biography Series reveals Edmund J. Davis, the heroic man who stood in strong opposition to his peers and better reflected the ideals of the nation than those of so many of his contemporaries. Carl H. Moneyhon presents a long overdue favorable account of a man who was determined to make progressive changes and stand in stark opposition to the state’s political elite. What moved this man to take such a dramatic stand against his political peers? Moneyhon strives to answer this very question. Edmund J. Davis was not only a part of the political elite during the Civil War, but he also opposed secession. He refused to follow most of Texas’ leaders and actively opposed the Confederacy by attempting to bring Texas back to the Union. After the war, Davis was a leader in reconstructing the state based on true free labor and pursued progressive and egalitarian policies as governor of Texas. Through the entire reconstruction process Davis faced extreme Confederate hostility. After leaving the governor’s mansion an unpopular man and politician, he still remained dedicated to changing Texas. He worked to change his adopted state until the day he died.
Author: Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2022-01-18
Total Pages: 547
ISBN-13: 1623499577
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Republican Union League of America played a major role in the Southern Reconstruction that followed the American Civil War. A secret organization introduced into Texas in 1867 to mobilize newly enfranchised black voters, it was the first political body that attempted to secure power by forming a biracial coalition. Originally intended by white Unionists simply to marshal black voters to their support, it evolved into an organization that allowed blacks to pursue their own political goals. It was abandoned by the state’s Republican Party following the 1871 state elections. From the beginning the use of the league by the Republican party proved controversial. While its opponents charged that its white leadership simply manipulated ignorant blacks to achieve power for themselves, ultimately encouraging racial conflict, the League not only educated blacks in their new political rights but also protected them in the exercise of those rights. It gave blacks a voice in supporting the legislative program of Gov. Edmund J. Davis, helping him to push through laws aimed at the maintenance of law and order, securing basic civil rights for blacks, and the creation of public schools. Ultimately, its success and its secrecy provoked hostile attacks from political opponents, leading the party to stop using it. Nonetheless, the Union League created a legacy of black activism that lasted throughout the nineteenth century and pushed Texas toward a remarkably different world from the segregated and racist one that developed after the league disappeared.
Author: Randolph B. Campbell
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780807141618
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780875657486
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This is the biography of George T. Ruby, an African American statesman who was active in Texas politics and fought for equal rights for black freedmen in Reconstruction Texas"--
Author: Charles William Ramsdell
Publisher: Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law
Published: 1910
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents an outline of a period in Texas history that has left a deep impress upon the later history, the political organization and the public mind of Texans.
Author: Andrew L. Slap
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2010-05-03
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0823227111
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the Election of 1872 the conflict between President U. S. Grant and Horace Greeley has been typically understood as a battle for the soul of the ruling Republican Party. In this innovative study, Andrew Slap argues forcefully that the campaign was more than a narrow struggle between Party elites and a class-based radical reform movement. The election, he demonstrates, had broad consequences: in their opposition to widespread Federal corruption, Greeley Republicans unintentionally doomed Reconstruction of any kind, even as they lost the election. Based on close readings of newspapers, party documents, and other primary sources, Slap confronts one of the major questions in American political history: How, and why, did Reconstruction come to an end? His focus on the unintended consequences of Liberal Republican politics is a provocative contribution to this important debate.
Author: Boris Heersink
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-19
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1107158435
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces how the Republican Party in the South after Reconstruction transformed from a biracial organization to a mostly all-white one.
Author: Wayne Thorburn
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2021-06-01
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 1477322515
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On July 4, 1867, a group of men assembled in Houston to establish the Republican Party of Texas. Combatting entrenched statewide support for the Democratic Party and their own internal divisions, Republicans struggled to gain a foothold in the Lone Star State, which had sided with the Confederacy and aligned with the Democratic platform. In The Republican Party of Texas, Wayne Thorburn, former executive director of the Texas GOP, chronicles over one hundred and fifty years of the defeats and victories of the party that became the dominant political force in Texas in the modern era. Thorburn documents the organizational structure of the Texas GOP, drawing attention to prominent names, such as Harry Wurzbach and George W. Bush, alongside lesser-known community leaders who bolstered local support. The 1960s and 1970s proved a watershed era for Texas Republicans as they shored up ideological divides and elected the first Republican governor and more state senators and congressional representatives than ever before. From decisions about candidates and shifting allegiances and political stances, to race-based divisions and strategic cooperation with leaders in the Democratic Party, Thorburn unearths the development of the GOP in Texas to understand the unique Texan conservatism that prevails today.