Governor Edmund J. Davis and the Failure of Reconstruction in Texas

• In Event: Race and State Building

Brief Overview

A political history delineating the cultural, rather than elite forces that rejected Reconstruction in Texas. Governor E.J. Davis, a Unionist in the war, was a symbol of Yankee oppression, and the focal point of opposition for the political culture.

Author

• Robert Jefferson Dillard, Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi