Sweet land of liberty?: the African-American struggle for civil rights in the twentieth century
In: Studies in modern history
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In: Studies in modern history
In: Limnologica: ecology and management of inland waters, Band 78, S. 125713
ISSN: 1873-5851
This article, the first detailed scholarly assessment of northern responses to the death of former Confederate president Jefferson Davis in December 1889, contributes to ongoing scholarly debates over the troubled process of sectional reconciliation after the Civil War. Southern whites used their leader's funeral obsequies to assert not only their affection for the deceased but also their devotion to the Lost Cause that he had championed and embodied. Based on an analysis of northern newspapers and mass-circulation magazines in the two weeks after Davis's death, the essay demonstrates that many northerners, principally Republican politicians and editors, Union veterans and African Americans, were outraged by southerners' flagrant willingness to laud a man whom they regarded as the arch-traitor and that they remained opposed to reconciliation on southern terms. However, despite continuing concerns about public displays of affection for the Confederacy evident at the time of Davis's reinterment in Richmond in May 1893, northern opposition to the Lost Cause waned rapidly in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Full-blown sectional reconciliation occurred after the Republicans gave up on their efforts to enforce black voting rights in the South and President William McKinley's imperialist foreign policy necessitated, and to some degree garnered, support from southern whites. The death of Jefferson Davis, therefore, can be seen as an important event in the difficult transition from a heavily sectionalized postwar polity to a North-South rapprochement based heavily on political pragmatism, sentiment, nationalism, and white supremacism.
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In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Band 48, Heft 4, S. 413-415
ISSN: 0031-322X
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Band 48, Heft 4, S. 413-415
ISSN: 1461-7331
In: Safundi: the journal of South African and American Comparative Studies, Band 5, Heft 1-2, S. 1-19
ISSN: 1543-1304
In: Working USA: the journal of labor & society, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 26-55
ISSN: 1743-4580
Cook traces the history of union pension funds and enactment of Section 302 of Taft‐Hartley requiring joint employer‐employee management of formerly union funds. He reviews theories of ownership of pension funds, finding the "deferred wage theory" to fit best. This article shows that the NRLB concurred, holding that pensions are part of wages; replies to objections to joint trusteeship; and concludes that all pension funds should be jointly trusteed.
In: Journal of refugee studies, Band 5, Heft 3-4, S. 271-288
ISSN: 1471-6925
In: Journal of European studies, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 179-180
ISSN: 1740-2379
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 41, Heft 6, S. 808-808
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Studies in modern history
A powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Martin Luther King, and more with the ordinary men and women who were mobilised by the grass-roots activities of civil-rights workers and community leaders. He begins with the development of segregation in the late nineteenth century, but his main focus is on the continuing struggle this century. It is a dramatic story of many achievements - even if in many respects it is also a record of unfinished business.