Taylor, George, 78, 81–82, 134
Taylor, Mack, 110
Thirteenth Amendment, 3, 21–22
Thompson, Lewis, 110
Tinker, Mack, 82–83
Tramblies, America, 97
Turner, Nat, 111, 111
Tutson, Samuel and Hannah, 85–88, 133
Twiggs, H. D. D., 112
Tyndall, Junius, 56
U
Union army
black soldiers, 39, 121, 144
casualties, 15, 30
liberation of slaves, 3, 5, 10
military rule in South, 36–37, 37, 39–40
sweep through South, 2, 2–3, 15
United States Congress. See also Republicans
Amnesty Act, 142
Civil Rights Act (1866), 22, 22, 59–60
Civil Rights Act (1871), 129, 129–30
Civil Rights Act (1964), 149
Enforcement Act, 74
Federal Hate Crimes Law, 149
Fifteenth Amendment, 74, 75
Fourteenth Amendment, 37, 59, 62, 129, 142–43
Reconstruction Acts, 35–37, 37, 59–60
Thirteenth Amendment, 3, 21–22
Voting Rights Act, 149
United States Supreme Court, 143
V
determination to vote, 68, 69
fraud, 65
legal restrictions on, 71
political meetings, 64, 66, 108, 109–12, 113–14, 117–18
Republican affiliation, 63, 65–66, 67, 115
right to vote, 36–37, 40, 59, 60, 149
violence against, 66–67, 142, 143, 145
voting by Confederates, 18, 24, 38–39, 142
Voting Rights Act, 149
W
Washington, Booker T., 96, 106
white supremacy
beliefs of Southern whites, 7, 10, 10, 22, 45, 83, 93
in 1868 Democratic platform, 65
in formation and rebirth of Ku Klux Klan, 35, 45–46, 147–49
present-day hate groups, 149–50
Williams, Jim, 121–25
Williams, Mittie, 1–2, 7, 150
Williams, Rosy, 126, 134
worship. See churches
Wyatt, William, 66
Y
Yankees. See Union army
About the Author
SUSAN CAMPBELL BARTOLETTI is the award-winning author of several books for young readers, including Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845–1850, winner of the Robert F. Sibert Medal. She lives in Moscow, Pennsylvania.
Visit her website at www.scbartoletti.com