The Race Question scrapbook, circa 1880-1900.

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The Race Question scrapbook, circa 1880-1900.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43886797

This collection contains 1 scrapbook and 1 folder of newspaper clippings. The scrapbook is entitled "The Race Question," and it contains newspaper articles dealing with various race questions created by the abolition of slavery. These articles appear to have been taken from both Northern and Southern newspapers and were written from the perspective of both races. Thomas Gamble's letter in the beginning of the scrapbook states that the articles date from 1889-1890. However, the folder of loose newspaper clippings contains articles dating to approximately 1900. Topics dealt with in these newspaper articles include: educating illiterate Negroes in the South; giving Negroes the right to vote; discrimination in the North; racial issues in the Christian Church; Negro deportations; white labor in the South; the Republican Party and the South; statistics on Negro prosperity in Georgia; increase in the population of Negroes in the South, and calling for the repeal of the 5th and 14th Amendments. Other topics include an editorial on Henry W. Grady's speech on "The New South"; Lincoln on Negroes; General Sherman on Negroes; William P. Calhoun's plan to colonize Negroes on public lands in New Mexico; J.M. Langston (first black allowed to the bar in Ohio); Isaiah T. Montgomery (an educated Mississippi freedman); the abolition of slavery in Brazil; lynchings (in the North and South), and on whether Frederick Douglass' marriage to a white woman will affect his diplomatic career.

1 v., 1 folder (.05 cubic feet)

Georgia Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7535260

Georgia Historical Society

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