Testimony before the Joint Committee on Reconstruction on Atrocities in the South against Blacks - Milestone Documents

Testimony before the Joint Committee on Reconstruction on Atrocities in the South against Blacks

( 1866 )

Further Reading

Articles

  • Lowe, Richard. “The Joint Committee on Reconstruction: Some Clarifications.” Southern Studies 3 (Spring 1992): 55–65.

Books

  • Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.
  • Franklin, John Hope. Reconstruction after the Civil War. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
  • Kendrick, Benjamin B. The Journal of the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction, 39th Congress, 1865–1867. 1914. Reprint. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969.
  • Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction at the First Session, Thirty-ninth Congress. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1866.
  • Trefousse, Hans L. The Radical Republicans: Lincoln’s Vanguard for Racial Justice. New York: Knopf, 1969.
  • Wilbur, W. Allan. “Joint Committee on Reconstruction, 1865.” In Congress Investigates: A Documented History, 1792–1974, ed. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Roger Bruns. New York: Chelsea House, 1975.
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