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- Title
Alabama's Colored Conventions and the Exodus Movement, 1871-1879.
- Authors
LEFORGE, JUDY BUSSELL
- Abstract
The article discusses Alabama's "Colored Conventions" and the exodus movement among African Americans in that state during the 1870s. In the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War, many blacks in Alabama felt the federal government was doing a poor job of ensuring their civil rights. In response, Colored Conventions of blacks convened to signal their plight to the U.S. Congress. By the end of the 1870s, though, some blacks were convinced Reconstruction had failed and their best option was to emigrate to the Midwest. James Thomas Rapier promoted the resettlement of blacks to Kansas.
- Subjects
ALABAMA; UNITED States; AFRICAN Americans; RECONSTRUCTION (U.S. history, 1865-1877); HISTORY of African American civil rights; AFRICAN American history, 1863-1877; RAPIER, James Thomas; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Alabama Review, 2010, Vol 63, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0002-4341
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ala.2010.0019