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Show Thyself a Man

Georgia State Troops, Colored, 1865-1905

By: Mixon, Gregory

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Show Thyself a Man

Georgia State Troops, Colored, 1865-1905

By: Mixon, Gregory

In Show Thyself a Man, Gregory Mixon explores the ways African Americans in postbellum Georgia used the militia as a vehicle to secure full citizenship, respect, and a more stable place in society. As citizen-soldiers, black men were empowered to get involved in politics, secure their own financial independence, and publicly commemorate black freedom with celebrations such as Emancipation Day. White Georgians, however, used the militia as a different symbol of freedom--to ensure the postwar white right to rule. This book is a forty-year history of black militia service in Georgia and the determined disbandment process that whites undertook to destroy it, connecting this chapter of the post-emancipation South to the larger history of militia participation by African-descendant people through the Western hemisphere and Latin America.

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University Press of Florida

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0813055873

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Show Thyself a Man

Georgia State Troops, Colored, 1865-1905

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The Atlanta Riot

Race, Class, and Violence in a New South City

By: Gregory Mixon

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The Atlanta Riot

Race, Class, and Violence in a New South City

By: Gregory Mixon

Mixon also documents the activism of the city's black elite, especially professors and administrators at Atlanta University, including W.E.B. Du Bois and John Hope, and ministers, most notably Rev. Henry Hugh Proctor. While they defended all blacks against notions of racial inferiority and worked to improve the lives of the poor and uneducated of both races, they nonetheless criticized members of the black working class for "irregular" work habits and "destructive" use of their leisure hours.

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