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The racial aspect of Reconstruction drew a lot of heat from racist dicks in both the North and the South. This 1866 poster by Thomas Nast lampooned the broken promises of the Johnson Administration, which all but turned a blind eye to the undoing of the Civil War Amendments by unreconstructed confederates.
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Two Atlanta Constitution articles during the Washer Women’s Strike of 1881: The article on the left, from July 21, reports on the early days of the strike. The excerpt on the right, from Aug. 3, includes a letter that the women wrote to Mayor Jim English.
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Map of Atlanta, Georgia 1870
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Newspaper that outlines how white women in Atlanta have no reliable servants to help around the house and often have to cook meals themselves. Black women are to blame. They only work when they are desperate, and they spend too much time enjoying their freedom.
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African-American woman doing laundry with a scrub board and tub, African-American girl stirring pot with 3 other children on the ground watching, and a woman in the background spreading laundry
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Man representing the Freedman's Bureau stands between armed groups of Euro-Americans and Afro-Americans.
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Cartoon showing Andrew Johnson as the deceitful Iago who betrayed Othello, portrayed here as an African American Civil War veteran. Includes scenes of slave auction, whites attacking African Americans in Memphis and New Orleans, and "Copperhead" and "C.S.A." snakes wrapped around African American man while Andrew Johnson and others watch
