https://padlet.com/cmendieta16/vv15l3270nwc HIS 315L en-us 2017-02-01 18:37:27 UTC 2017-05-17 04:17:59 UTC hello@padlet.com cmendieta16 https://padlet.com/cmendieta16/vv15l3270nwc/wish/151015664 This image is entitled "This Is a White Man's Government." It depicts an Irishman from the "Five Points Gang" (Left), Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan Nathan Bedford Forrest (Center), and Democrat and Wall Street financier August Belmont (Right) all standing on top of a black Civil War veteran who is laying near a ballot box while holding an American flag; I chose this image because I believe it strongly communicates the hostility of whites towards emancipated blacks as well as the opposition that the political and social revolution of Radical Reconstruction was met with in the South. This historical image supports what we have learned through our course lectures and readings which is that Reconstruction with the goal of building a "New South" resulted in the terrorizing of African Americans by white supremacists who saw Reconstruction as an attempt to empower the lower classes society and rallied to assert their dominance as the "superior" race. This image, however, does not acknowledge the thriving state of blacks following the end of the Civil War, it doesn't show the remarkable mobilization of the freed black communities under Reconstruction policies that led to the creation of independent black institutions (schools, churches, etc.) and the exercising of their rights to vote and own property. This political cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast and it was published in Harper's Weekly on September 5, 1868.]]> 2017-02-01 23:51:26 UTC https://padlet.com/cmendieta16/vv15l3270nwc/wish/151015664