Macrobius
12-24-2007, 07:27 AM
Wikipedia is rather terse about the role of the Union League in Reconstruction:
During Reconstruction, Union Leagues were formed all across the South after 1867 as working auxiliaries of the Republican party. They mobilized freedmen to register to vote and to vote Republican. They discussed political issues, promoted civic projects, and mobilized workers opposed to certain white employers. Most branches were segregated but there were a few that were racially integrated. The leaders of the all-black units were mostly urban Blacks from the North, who had never been slaves. Foner (p 283) says "virtually every Black voter in the South had enrolled."
This was the vector by which Segregation was introduced into the South, after the War. It is interesting to see who is on the title page of this book...
http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=LCCN10014318&id=VyLgTUXc_3IC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=Union+League&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Flr%3D%26q%3DUnion%2BLeague%26start%3D30&sig=b5keuuzIvu50Y5L-O5MR9i4fZtU
(issued on the occasion of speeches on the anniversary of Fort Sumter, in 1863)
We, the undersigned, citizens of the United States, hereby associate ourselves under the name and title of the LOYAL NATIONAL LEAGUE....
Signed,
James A. Roosevelt
Now, I don't know for *sure* that we are talking *the* Roosevelts here, but I have a pretty good guess.
Signatory on p.4 (Executive Cmte. of 25): Franklin H. Delano
Breeding shows.
During Reconstruction, Union Leagues were formed all across the South after 1867 as working auxiliaries of the Republican party. They mobilized freedmen to register to vote and to vote Republican. They discussed political issues, promoted civic projects, and mobilized workers opposed to certain white employers. Most branches were segregated but there were a few that were racially integrated. The leaders of the all-black units were mostly urban Blacks from the North, who had never been slaves. Foner (p 283) says "virtually every Black voter in the South had enrolled."
This was the vector by which Segregation was introduced into the South, after the War. It is interesting to see who is on the title page of this book...
http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=LCCN10014318&id=VyLgTUXc_3IC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=Union+League&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Flr%3D%26q%3DUnion%2BLeague%26start%3D30&sig=b5keuuzIvu50Y5L-O5MR9i4fZtU
(issued on the occasion of speeches on the anniversary of Fort Sumter, in 1863)
We, the undersigned, citizens of the United States, hereby associate ourselves under the name and title of the LOYAL NATIONAL LEAGUE....
Signed,
James A. Roosevelt
Now, I don't know for *sure* that we are talking *the* Roosevelts here, but I have a pretty good guess.
Signatory on p.4 (Executive Cmte. of 25): Franklin H. Delano
Breeding shows.