North Carolina's republican press during Reconstruction
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Linda Bowland Thompson (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Allen Trelease
Abstract: This thesis deals with selected reforms, issues, and problems which concerned North Carolina's Republican press from 1867 to 1877. Before the Civil War public attention in the North was concerned with antislavery, public education, women's rights, and temperance reforms. After the war the central reform, abolition of slavery, had become a reality. Still, the Negro needed help in attaining equal civil and political rights. Public education, women's rights, and temperance reforms also continued to be considered after the war ended. Of these reforms, public education was the most earnestly sought by Republicans. The women's rights movement gained important ground in the South after the war. The loss of a quarter of a million men's lives in the war opened new fields of endeavor for many Southern women. Temperance reform experienced little progress during this period, however agitation by a few did arouse public opinion to the evils of alcoholic consumption. In North Carolina the newly organized Republican party and its press embraced most of these reforms. Particular emphasis was given to the granting of equal civil and political rights to the Negro, without which the party had little prospect of success. European and Northern immigration was another issue with which Southerners - Republicans as well as Democrats - were concerned during Reconstruction.
North Carolina's republican press during Reconstruction
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- Publication
- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 1972
- Subjects
- Republican Party (N.C.) $x History
- North Carolina $v Newspapers $x History
- Reconstruction $z North Carolina