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On Monuments, America Must Never Surrender to Confederates, Old or New (conclusion)
part four of four ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Frank J. Scaturro. Frank is president of the Grant Monument Association and the author of President Grant Reconsidered and The Supreme Court’s Retreat from Reconstruction. He is currently writing a book … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Monuments, Reconstruction
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Charlotte Scott, Counter Reconstruction, Frank J. Scaturro, Frederick Douglass, Freedmen's Memorial, George Thomas, Hamburg Massacre, Hiram Revels, John A. Bingham, John Mercer Langston, Joseph Rainey, Lincoln's Second Inaugural, Mary McLeod Bethune, Monuments, On-Monuments-Never-Surrender-to-Confederates, Queen Elizabeth II, Ulysses S. Grant
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Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce: America’s First Black Senators
On February 25, 1870, visitors in the U.S. Senate gallery burst into applause when the new Republican senator from Mississippi entered the chamber. This man was no ordinary senator. He was Hiram R. Revels, and he was the first African … Continue reading
