Relationships Between Whites and African Americans After the Civil War

By MARIE W. WATTS

 

After Emancipation, African Americans struggled to reunite families, set up households, start their own churches and schools, and establish their own rural communities. While newspaper editorials railed against African Americans in general— vigorously opposing their suffrage, military protection, and any other type of advancement some Fayette County attitudes toward particular local African Americans was somewhat tempered.

 

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