Radical Reform: Interracial Politics in Post-Emancipation North Carolina

by Deborah Beckel

Radical Reform describes a remarkable chapter in the American pro-democracy movement. It portrays the largely unknown leaders of the interracial Republican Party who struggled for political, civil, and labor rights in North Carolina after the Civil War. In so doing, they paved the way for the victorious coalition that briefly toppled the white supremacist Democratic Party regime in the 1890s.

Beckel provides a nuanced assessment of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813930022
• ISBN13: 9780813930022
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher