Read Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912

Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912

William D. Green

4.9/5 (9869 ratings)

Description:He had just given a rousing speech to a crammed assembly in St. Paul, but Frederick Douglass, confidant to the Great Emancipator himself and conscience of the Republican Party, was denied a hotel room because he was black. This was Minnesota in 1873, four years after the state had approved black suffrage—a state where “freedom” meant being unshackled from chains but not social restrictions, where “equality” meant access to the ballot but not to a hotel or restaurant downtown. Spanning the half century after the Civil War, Degrees of Freedom draws a rare picture of black experience in a northern state of this period and of the nature of black discontent and action within a predominantly white, ostensibly progressive society. William D. Green brings to light a full cast of little-known historical characters among the black men and women who moved to Minnesota following the Fifteenth Amendment; worked as farmhands and laborers; built communities (such as Pig’s Eye Landing, later renamed St. Paul), businesses, and a newspaper (the Western Appeal); and embodied the slow but inexorable advancement of race relations in the state over time. Within this absorbing, often surprising, narrative we meet “ordinary” citizens, like former slave and early settler Jim Thompson and black barbers catering to a white clientele, but also outsize figures of national stature, such as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W. E. B. Du Bois, all of whom championed civil rights in Minnesota. And we see how, in a state where racial prejudice and oppression wore a liberal mask, black settlers and entrepreneurs, politicians, and activists maneuvered within a restricted political arena to bring about real and lasting change.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912. To get started finding Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 1452944431

Description: He had just given a rousing speech to a crammed assembly in St. Paul, but Frederick Douglass, confidant to the Great Emancipator himself and conscience of the Republican Party, was denied a hotel room because he was black. This was Minnesota in 1873, four years after the state had approved black suffrage—a state where “freedom” meant being unshackled from chains but not social restrictions, where “equality” meant access to the ballot but not to a hotel or restaurant downtown. Spanning the half century after the Civil War, Degrees of Freedom draws a rare picture of black experience in a northern state of this period and of the nature of black discontent and action within a predominantly white, ostensibly progressive society. William D. Green brings to light a full cast of little-known historical characters among the black men and women who moved to Minnesota following the Fifteenth Amendment; worked as farmhands and laborers; built communities (such as Pig’s Eye Landing, later renamed St. Paul), businesses, and a newspaper (the Western Appeal); and embodied the slow but inexorable advancement of race relations in the state over time. Within this absorbing, often surprising, narrative we meet “ordinary” citizens, like former slave and early settler Jim Thompson and black barbers catering to a white clientele, but also outsize figures of national stature, such as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W. E. B. Du Bois, all of whom championed civil rights in Minnesota. And we see how, in a state where racial prejudice and oppression wore a liberal mask, black settlers and entrepreneurs, politicians, and activists maneuvered within a restricted political arena to bring about real and lasting change.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912. To get started finding Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912

Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912

More Books

Nellie Francis: Fighting for Racial Justice and Women's Equality in Minnesota

Nellie Francis: Fighting for Racial Justice and Women's Equality in Minnesota

The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876

The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876

A Peculiar Imbalance: The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Early Minnesota

A Peculiar Imbalance: The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Early Minnesota

A Peculiar Imbalance: The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Minnesota, 1837?1869 (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage) by William D. Green (2015-04-15)

A Peculiar Imbalance: The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Minnesota, 1837?1869 (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage) by William D. Green (2015-04-15)

The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer

The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer

Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865?1912 by William D. Green (2015-04-22)

Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865?1912 by William D. Green (2015-04-22)

Strike!: Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers Broke the Law

Strike!: Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers Broke the Law

The Bid For The Throne: Democracy in Crisis

The Bid For The Throne: Democracy in Crisis

The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World

The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World