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 =Online Edition Project=
-*W.E.Burhardt du Bois (1935), <i>Black Reconstruction in America:  An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in QAmerica, 1860-1880. [http://www.creoliste.fr/docs/essays/WEBDubois_TOC.html @creoliste.fr]
+*W.E.Burhardt du Bois (1935), <i>Black Reconstruction in America:  An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880. [http://www.creoliste.fr/docs/essays/WEBDubois_TOC.html @creoliste.fr]
 [[Category: US History]]
 [[Category: South]]

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 * '''Small (Robert)''' - black war hero (the man who "stole" the ''Planter'') who sparked a media frenzy when he was kicked off a Philadelphia streetcar in Jan 1865 for being black.  This led to a number of Northern cities desegregating streetcars.
 * '''Washington (Booker T.)''' -- famous for his "Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition Speech" in 1895, his book (''Up from Slavery'') is available online [http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/w#a880]
-* '''Watson (Tom)''' - Eloquent spokesman for the Farmer's Alliance, later for the People's party, elected to the house of Representatives in Georgia in the 1890s, split with the Democratic party over its non-support for the Ocala Convention, and eventually ran for president.
+* '''Watson (Tom)''' - Eloquent spokesman for the Farmer's Alliance, later for the People's party, elected to the house of Representatives in Georgia in the 1890s, split with the Democratic party over its non-support for the Ocala Convention, and eventually ran for president.  In his later life, his reputation as an anti-Semite became his determining characteristic.
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-* '''Davis Bend''' - Joe Davis' (Jefferson Davis' brother) prewar experiment to create an ideal slave community.  Influence of Robert Owen.
+* '''Davis Bend''' - Joe Davis' (Jefferson Davis' brother) prewar experiment to create an ideal slave community.  Influence of Robert Owen.  Later sold to Benjamin and Isaiah Montgomery, who were unable to make it profitable.  Isaiah Montgomery would later found the town of Mound Bayou.  [https://vimeo.com/111884037 Take the Mountain] (University of Mississippi Outreach video)
 * '''Sea Islands''' - off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia.  much publicized first attempt at reconstruction, Sherman authorized this effort at least partially in an attempt to free the army of the massive number of former that were following the army.  Particular, as those freedmen originally from the Sea Islands had already had a certain degree of autonomy, and also because of the national coverage that it received (missionaries, investors, etc.)

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 =Online Edition Project=
-<p>W.E.Burhardt du Bois (1935), <i>Black Reconstruction in America:  An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in QAmerica, 1860-1880. [http://www.creoliste.fr/docs/essays/WEBDubois_TOC.html @creoliste.fr]</p>
+*W.E.Burhardt du Bois (1935), <i>Black Reconstruction in America:  An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in QAmerica, 1860-1880. [http://www.creoliste.fr/docs/essays/WEBDubois_TOC.html @creoliste.fr]
 [[Category: US History]]
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 * '''cracker''' -- disparaging name given to lower class / working class whites, especially those who pushed for segregation / Jim Crow laws
 * '''The Great Barbecue''' - name for the appropriations that facilitated in particular the building of railroads.  The North profited disproportionately from these appropriations ''(from 1865-1873 out of a total of $103m, only $9.5m went to the South (source: Woodward citing Treasury Dept. figures))''
-* '''Redeemers''' --
+* '''Redeemers'''
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 =Notions=
 * '''Bourbon Democrats''' -- name given to conservative Southern democrats, with Whiggish tendencies (support of NE Democrat policies favoring industry, banks, etc.)
-* '''Carpetbaggers''' -- name given to Northerners coming South to take advantage of low prices after the Civil War
+* '''Carpetbaggers''' -- name given to Northerners coming South to take advantage of low prices after the Civil War, or to participate in Reconstruction as teachers, for example.
 * '''cracker''' -- disparaging name given to lower class / working class whites, especially those who pushed for segregation / Jim Crow laws
 * '''The Great Barbecue''' - name for the appropriations that facilitated in particular the building of railroads.  The North profited disproportionately from these appropriations ''(from 1865-1873 out of a total of $103m, only $9.5m went to the South (source: Woodward citing Treasury Dept. figures))''

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-=People=
+<h1>People</h1>
-==Presidents==
+<h2>Presidents</h2>
 * '''Lincoln (Abraham)''' (1861-1865) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln]
 * '''Johnson (Andrew)''' (1865-1869) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson]
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 * '''Cleveland (Grover)''' (1893-1897) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland]
-==Others==
+<h2>Others</h2>
 * '''Blaine (James)''' - Speaker of the House, twice Secretary of State (Garfield, Arthur), ran against Hayes for the Republican nomination in 1876, and was nominated in 1884, but lost to Grover Cleveland.  Tainted by charges of corruption.  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Blaine]

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 * '''Douglas (Frederic)''' - prominent abolitionist appointed president of the Freedmen's Savings Bank. Entry needs completion!  Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass]
 * '''Grady (Henry)''' - became managing editor of the Atlanta ''Constitution'' after having written an article entitled "The New South" in the Atlanta ''Herald'' vaunting industrial development and the railroads as the South's path to salvation.  Sharply criticized by Tom Watson, a powerful leader of the Farmer's Alliance, who understood the program of "The New South" as a sell-out to the North. [http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2451&sug=y]
-*'''Harris (Joel Chandler)''' - newspaperman, author of Uncle Remus stories (''Cf.'' [[Folktales]]), as well as another interesting book, <i>Stories of Georgia</i>, "[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24728/24728-h/24728-h.htm#2H_4_0018 The Creeks and the Creek war]
+*'''Harris (Joel Chandler)''' - newspaperman, author of Uncle Remus stories (''Cf.'' [[Folktales]]), as well as another interesting book, <i>Stories of Georgia</i>, "[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24728/24728-h/24728-h.htm#2H_4_0018 The Creeks and the Creek war]"
 * '''Houzeau (Jean-Charles)''' - Belgian journalist and astronomer, became the editor of the New Orleans ''Tribune'' in 1864, making it into a widely read journal whose influence spread far beyond Louisiana.
 * '''Philbrick (Edward S.)''' - oversaw the first attempt at Reconstruction on the Sea Islands.