The Risen Phoenix: Black Politics in the Post-Civil War South

by Luis-Alejandro Dinnella-Borrego

The Risen Phoenix charts the changing landscape of black politics and political culture in the postwar South by focusing on the careers of six black congressmen who served between the Civil War and the turn of the nineteenth century: John Mercer Langston of Virginia, James Thomas Rapier of Alabama, Robert Smalls of South Carolina, John Roy Lynch of Mississippi, Josiah Thomas Walls of Florida, and George Henry White of North Carolina. Drawing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813938740
• ISBN13: 9780813938745
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"