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- catalog abstract ""In Mobile, the Confederacy's fourth largest city, the most pressing social divide within the black community was between longtime residents - often freeborn, prosperous, and of mixed ancestry - and the wave of destitute rural freedmen fleeing the countryside. After Emancipation, moderate African American leaders seeking legal equality, and promoted by powerful white allies, emerged from the first group. The newcomers spawned a more militant faction - younger, poorer, and darker-skinned than their opponents - who encouraged mass action in the streets and formed the constituency for the white "carpetbag" leadership that dominated popular Republic politics." "Fitzgerald traces how the rivalry between black factions yielded a startlingly antagonistic political scene that steadily escalated into physical conflict, culminating in years of confrontations and altercations at rallies and conventions. He also explains why such strife was especially intense in urban areas, where activists and political patronage concentrated. Indeed, in Mobile, African Americans leaders seldom met violence at the hands of their racist adversaries, but their own rival clusters challenged each other repeatedly." "Though Fitzgerald's book examines the local level, its implications are far reaching. By showing that fits in the African American community kept its members from working as a unified whole, it demonstrates that the Republican factionalism that helped doom Reconstruction went beyond competing cliques of white officeholders and their ambitions for patronage and position. Blacks too were partially responsible for the failure of Reconstruction."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12650691.
- catalog coverage "Mobile (Ala.) Politics and government 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "Mobile (Ala.) Race relations.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Fitzgerald traces how the rivalry between black factions yielded a startlingly antagonistic political scene that steadily escalated into physical conflict, culminating in years of confrontations and altercations at rallies and conventions. He also explains why such strife was especially intense in urban areas, where activists and political patronage concentrated. Indeed, in Mobile, African Americans leaders seldom met violence at the hands of their racist adversaries, but their own rival clusters challenged each other repeatedly."".
- catalog description ""In Mobile, the Confederacy's fourth largest city, the most pressing social divide within the black community was between longtime residents - often freeborn, prosperous, and of mixed ancestry - and the wave of destitute rural freedmen fleeing the countryside. After Emancipation, moderate African American leaders seeking legal equality, and promoted by powerful white allies, emerged from the first group. The newcomers spawned a more militant faction - younger, poorer, and darker-skinned than their opponents - who encouraged mass action in the streets and formed the constituency for the white "carpetbag" leadership that dominated popular Republic politics."".
- catalog description ""Though Fitzgerald's book examines the local level, its implications are far reaching. By showing that fits in the African American community kept its members from working as a unified whole, it demonstrates that the Republican factionalism that helped doom Reconstruction went beyond competing cliques of white officeholders and their ambitions for patronage and position. Blacks too were partially responsible for the failure of Reconstruction."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "An influx of "ignorant country darkies" : war and emancipation in Mobile -- None but colored men : the Mobile Nationalist and the dilemmas of interracial activism -- The most influential people : suffrage, class, and factionalism -- The fruits of sagacity : race, business, and the radical ascendancy -- The mainspring of it all : the racial politics of federal employment -- Let us serve the rich : black politics in an era of diminishing prospects.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-285) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 301 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0807128074 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0807128376 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Alabama Mobile".
- catalog spatial "Alabama Mobile.".
- catalog spatial "Mobile (Ala.) Politics and government 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Mobile (Ala.) Race relations.".
- catalog subject "976.1/2200496073 21".
- catalog subject "African American leadership Alabama Mobile History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "African American politicians Alabama Mobile History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Alabama Mobile Politics and government 19th century.".
- catalog subject "F334.M6 F58 2002".
- catalog subject "Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Alabama Mobile.".
- catalog subject "Republican Party (Ala.) History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "An influx of "ignorant country darkies" : war and emancipation in Mobile -- None but colored men : the Mobile Nationalist and the dilemmas of interracial activism -- The most influential people : suffrage, class, and factionalism -- The fruits of sagacity : race, business, and the radical ascendancy -- The mainspring of it all : the racial politics of federal employment -- Let us serve the rich : black politics in an era of diminishing prospects.".
- catalog title "Urban emancipation : popular politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860-1890 / Michael W. Fitzgerald.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".