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African-Americans Hold Office During Reconstruction Era

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African-Americans Hold Office During Reconstruction Era

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Southern black people attain jobs in the South in US Reconstruction

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Southern black people attain jobs in the South in US Reconstruction

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Black People Holding Positions In Office During Reconstruction Era

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Black People Holding Positions In Office During Reconstruction Era

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South Carolina Universities open their doors to colored youths, and gain many more students

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South Carolina Universities open their doors to colored youths, and gain many more students

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Former slave, Blanche K. Bruce raised his right hand to take the oath of office as a U.S. senator from Mississippi. Even though blacks were announced that their not citizens in the country of their birth.

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Former slave, Blanche K. Bruce raised his right hand to take the oath of office as a U.S. senator from Mississippi. Even though blacks were announced that their not citizens in the country of their birth.

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These white republicans are known by the contemptuous appellation of carpet-bagger and scalawag . . . [T]hey are a northern growth, and unless going South expatriates them, they are still northern men . . . But who are they? . . . Most of them have titles, not empty titles complaisantly bestowed in the piping times of peace, but titles worthily won by faithful and efficient service in the Federal armies, or plucked with strong right arm from war’s rugged front upon the field of battle . . . These men either went South with the Union armies and at the close of the war remained there; or went there soon after, in the latter part of 1865 or early in 1866, to make cotton. The high price of cotton in 1865 and 1866, and the facility with which cheap labor could be obtained, induced many enterprising northern men, especially the officers in the Federal armies in the South who had seen and become familiar with the country, to go or remain there to make cotton. Many purchased large plantations and paid large sums of money for them; others rented plantations, in some instances two or three, and embarked with characteristic energy in planting. This, it should be remembered, was before the civil-rights bill or the reconstruction acts, before the colored people had any part in political matters, and two years before they ever proposed to vote or claimed to have the right to vote at any election in the Southern States.

When the political contests of 1868 came on in which the colored people first took part in politics, as near all the native population in the large cotton-growing sections were opposed to negro suffrage and opposed to the republican party, they very naturally turned to these northern men for counsel and assistance in the performance of the new duties and exercise of their newly acquired political rights, and they as naturally gave them such counsel and became their leaders, and were intrusted with official power by them.

This brief summary will give you a correct idea of the manner in which, as I believe, nine-tenths of those who are called carpet-baggers became involved in political affairs [in the] South . . .

Without their co-operation and assistance the colored republicans could neither organize nor operate successfully in political contests, and without them the [Republican] party would soon be extinguished in the Southern States...

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a lot of schools are popping up and the teachers are well educated and know what there doing

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The Impact and Influence of Carpetbaggers during the reconstruction era

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The Impact and Influence of Carpetbaggers during the reconstruction era

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Black people hold office during Reconstruction ERA

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African Americans hold office during the Reconstructions Era

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South Carolina has increasing quality of schools and teachers

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South Carolina has increasing quality of schools and teachers

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After the Reconstruction Acts, fourteenth and fifteenth amendment were passed, state legislatures were beginning to have African American political powers. The South Carolina state legislature mainly consisted of African Americans and a few white people, one of the first to have such a mix of interracial political position.

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63 members, including black men join SC Legislature after Reconstruction Acts of 1867

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63 members, including black men join SC Legislature after Reconstruction Acts of 1867

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Universities in South Carolina make progress in integrating with colored students. In turn, their student population grows.

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Universities in South Carolina make progress in integrating with colored students. In turn, their student population grows.

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they rented and lent out plantations to people after the war.

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African Americans/Black people hold office and take jobs in the Reconstruction Era in the South

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African Americans/Black people hold office and take jobs in the Reconstruction Era in the South

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African Americans working in office during the Reconstruction time

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African-Americans/Black People hold office and take jobs for the first time in the Reconstruction Era in the South

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African-Americans/Black People hold office and take jobs for the first time in the Reconstruction Era in the South

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South Carolina Education System Grows in attendance with colored individuals now joining white.

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South Carolina Education System Grows in attendance with colored individuals now joining white.

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Government Allows African-Americans to Hold Office in the South. What happens next will shock you.

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Government Allows African-Americans to Hold Office in the South. What happens next will shock you.

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