Wilmington Race Riot

Spanish-American War Films and Documentaries

Images of Empire--Chapter 15

Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlock Rasta:
There was a Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America,
Stolen from Africa, brought to America,
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival.

I mean it, when I analyze the stench -
To me it makes a lot of sense:
How the Dreadlock Rasta was the Buffalo Soldier,
And he was taken from Africa, brought to America,
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival.

Said he was a Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlock Rasta -
Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America.

If you know your history,
Then you would know where you coming from,
Then you wouldn't have to ask me,
Who the 'eck do I think I am.

I'm just a Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America,
Stolen from Africa, brought to America,
Said he was fighting on arrival, fighting for survival;
Said he was a Buffalo Soldier win the war for America.

Dreadie, woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy!
Woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy!
Buffalo Soldier troddin' through the land, wo-ho-ooh!
Said he wanna ran, then you wanna hand,
Troddin' through the land, yea-hea, yea-ea.

Said he was a Buffalo Soldier win the war for America;
Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlock Rasta,
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival;
Driven from the mainland to the heart of the Caribbean.

Singing, woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy!
Woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy!

Troddin' through San Juan in the arms of America;
Troddin' through Jamaica, a Buffalo Soldier# -
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival:
Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlock Rasta.

Woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy!
Woy yoy yoy, woy yoy-yoy yoy,
Woy yoy yoy yoy, yoy yoy-yoy yoy!

Reconstructin and New South Study Terms

Reconstruction:
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson/Impeachment
Radical Reconstruction
Thaddeus Stevens/Charles Sumner

The 13th Amendment: Abolition of “Unfree” Labor
The 14th Amendment: Citizenship and “Due Process”
The 15th Amendment: Voting rights


Causes for the end of Reconstruction
Panic of 1873
Grantism & federal corruption
Time and the passing of the “Radical” Republicans
Consistent and widespread violence across the South
(The Klan as an example)

Compromise of 1877 and the “official” end of Reconstruction
LA, SC, & FL “Unredeemed”
Rutherford B. Hayes/GOP
Samuel Tilden/Demos
Federal troops out of the South
Federal funds for infrastructure improvements in the South

Populists
Farmers Alliance

The New South “Creed”:
Reverence for the Southern Past but Look to the Future
“Moonlight and Magnolias
Boosterism, Northern Capital and the Industrialization of the South
Railroads, Mining, Lumber, and Textiles
Northern Colonialism & “Extractive Wealth”
Complete Rejoining of the South in the Union
Spanish American War as Example
Exclusively Southern Solution to Race Question
Southern “Experience” with Blacks and “Hands Off” to the North

Disfranchisement of Black Citizens
Rewriting of State Constitutions (MS was the 1st in 1890)
Poll Taxes
“Comprehension” or Literacy Tests
Grandfather Clauses

Jim Crow Laws—social, legal, political, economic, cultural, (physical, in some cases) separation
Segregation and Apartheid

Williams v. Mississippi—Exclusionary Tactics like Comprehension Clauses were Constitutional
Plessy v. Ferguson—“Separate but Equal” schools, facilities, etc. were Constitutional

Booker T. Washington
(Frederick Douglass’s “self help”)
Tuskegee Institute
Atlanta Compromise
Economic advancement over social & political equality
Vocational/Technical Education

W.E.B. Du Bois
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Harlem Renaissance/”Talented Tenth”