African American Community Forms and Functions in the Post-Reconstruction American South

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel of scholars offer three interpretive views of black life in the Post-Reconstruction South. Their respective presentations offer comment on such themes as: black women migrants, community-building and identity in the Upper South; white supremacy and the problem of tri-raciality; and, the urban South during the rise of Jim Crow segregation.

Sub Unit

• ASALH Centennial Annual Meeting and Conference

Chair

• David Taft Terry, Morgan State University

Individual Presentations

• Black Women and Community Building in Post-Civil War U.S. History - Brandi C Brimmer, Morgan State University

• Complicating White Supremacy in Post-Emancipation North Carolina: Henry Berry Lowrie and the Case of the Lumbee - Charles L Chavis, Jr., Morgan State University

• The Urban South and Jim Crow’s Rise: Re-Mapping Migration and Re-Aligning the Critical Turns - David Taft Terry, Morgan State University

Commentator

• Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University