 | We Will Be Satisfied With Nothing Less: The African American Struggle for Equal Rights in the North during Reconstruction Subjects: African Americans -- History -- 1863–1877; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century; Equality before the law -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Reconstruction (U.S. history 1865–1877); Davis concentrates on the two issues that African Americans in the North considered most essential: black male suffrage rights and equal access to the public schools. Hugh Davis is Professor Emeritus of History at Southern Connecticut State University. He is the author of Leonard Bacon: New England Reformer and Antislavery Moderate and Joshua Leavitt: Evangelical Abolitionist. |
