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Lawrence-Sanders, Ashleigh. Confronting the rebel yell: how African Americans created and contested Civil War memory, 1865-1965. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-ycqj-x939

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TitleConfronting the rebel yell: how African Americans created and contested Civil War memory, 1865-1965
NameLawrence-Sanders, Ashleigh (author); Bay, Mia L (chair); White, Deborah Gray (internal member); Lears, T.J. Jackson (internal member); Cooper, Melissa (outside member); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
Date Created2019
Other Date2019-10 (degree)
SubjectAfrican Americans -- History, History, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Historiography, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans
Extent1 online resource (viii, 235 pages) : illustrations
DescriptionConfronting the Rebel Yell: How African Americans Created and Contested Civil War Memory, 1865-1965 centers Black American memory creation and counter-memory of the Civil War through the mid-20th century. This dissertation focuses on Black perspectives and utilizes African American histories, newspapers, popular culture and activism to demonstrate the reach and importance of Black Civil War memory. African American Civil War memory has undergirded most of African American social movements since Emancipation. In fact, African American Civil War memory increased in importance in the decades after the end of the war, rather than declined. African American Civil War memory was not monolithic and has been used, disputed, and leveraged by a diverse group of African Americans throughout the century after the war’s end. While confrontation with white Southern nostalgia manifested through the Lost Cause is a large part of the story, this dissertation reveals that African American ideas about the war were often as important internally as a means of crafting a usable past for racial uplift. This dissertation examines the long history of African Americans’ fight to be included in Civil War memory and how African Americans countered the dangerous myths of the Lost Cause while creating their own narratives about the war.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses, ETD doctoral
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-ycqj-x939
LanguageEnglish
CollectionSchool of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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