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Using editorials, letters, essays, and news reports that appeared throughout the country's print media, this book reveals how editors, politicians, and other Americans used the press to influence opinion from 1865 to 1877.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword Introduction: Newspapers During Reconstruction The First Year: Expressions of Hope and Concern, 1865 Johnson's Presidential Reconstruction Plan, 1865-1866 The Freedmen's Bureau, 1865-1872 Black Codes, 1865 Seating the South's Congressional Delegation, 1865 President Johnson v. Radical Congress, 1866 Freedmen's Bureau Act, 1866 Civil Right Act of 1866 Black Suffrage: Before the Vote, 1865-1866 Fourteenth Amendment, 1867 New Orleans Riot, 1866 Congressional Reconstruction, 1867 Black Suffrage: The First Vote, 1867 The Alaska Purchase, 1867 Impeachment of President Johnson, 1868 Creating the Carpetbagger Myth, 1867-1869 The Battle for Woman Suffrage, 1867-1870 Indian Policy in the West, 1867-1876 Violence and the Ku Klux Klan, 1867-1872 Sunday Liquor Laws, 1867-1873 Mormons and Polygamy, 1870-1876 Black Suffrage: The Fifteenth Amendment and Beyond, 1869-1877 Chinese Immigration, 1867-1872 Boss Tweed and New York Ring, 1870-1873 Credit Mobilier Scandal, 1872-1873 The Trial of Susan B. Anthony, 1873 Civil Rights Act of 1875 The Hamburg Riot, 1876 The Compromised Election of 1876 End of Reconstruction, 1877

About the Author

DONNA L.DICKERSON is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Communication at the University of Texas, Tyler.