History 122 Part 1: Gilded Age Resources

RECONSTRUCTION AND CIVIL RIGHTS:

• Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Proclamation
• The "Civil War Amendments" to the Constitution
• Frederick Douglass on Reconstruction
• A Letter from a Slave to His Former Master
• Mississippi Black Code, 1865
• Louisiana Black Code, 1865
• Terrorism in the South: Albion Tourgee on the KKK
• Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise
• W. E. B. Du Bois on Booker T. Washington
• Justice Harlan's Dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson
• American Slave Narratives at the University of Virginia
• Force Acts of 1870 and 1871 (Excerpts)
• Texas v. White
• Plessy v. Ferguson (Excerpt)
  • (For the full text of Plessy v. Ferguson, go to the Cornell University Law Center and locate near the top of the opening menu "Supreme Court--historic decisions." From there follow directions to any of 350 cases, arranged by name of case, name of justice, etc. Links also exist from there to many other constitutional and legal information sites.)

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• Helen Hunt Jackson: A Century of Dishonor
• Indians Tell Their Stories:  Includes the Following:
• Old Lady Horse
• Sitting Bull
• Chief Joseph
• Crazy Horse
• Chief Red Cloud on Peace
• Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis
• Homesteading
• Children on the Prairie
• Native American Sites

• Daily Lives of Working People:  Includes the Following:
• Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives
• Memoirs of a Sweatshop Girl
• Lincoln Steffens: The Shame of the Cities
• The Steel Mills of Pittsburgh
• A Chinese Immigrant's Story
• The Constitution of the Knights of Labor
• Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward
• William Graham Sumner on Reform
• The Interstate Commerce Act of 1877
• The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890
• Henry George on the Problem of Poverty
• The Populist Platform of 1892
• William Jennings Bryan: "Cross of Gold"

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