Reconstruction and Fusion

Confederate Truths: Documents of the Confederate & Neo-Confederate Tradition from 1787 to the Present.

Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan

John C. Calhoun Pro-Slavery U.S. Senator

Mildred Rutherford Historian General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy

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Introduction

The Gathering Storm
(1787 – 1860)

Secession
(1859 – 1861)

Civil War
(1861 – 1865)

Reconstruction and Fusion
(1866 – 1890)

The Nadir of Race Relations
(1890 – 1940)

The Civil Rights Era
(1940 – Present)

Further Reading

Reconstruction and Fusion

Robert E. Lee, against employing African Americans

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Alexander H. Stephens’s prison diary with his views on white supremacy and slavery as a benevolent system.

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Robert E. Lee Sr. advises Robert E. Lee Jr. that African Americans are their enemies and not to hire them.

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A proposed Lee Association

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Robert Lewis Dabney sees African Americans as a “sordid, alien taint," and is against their education

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Jefferson Davis's white supremacist and pro-slavery views in his memoirs published in 1881

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