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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Efford, Alison Clark |
| Title, Analytic | German Immigrants and the Arc of American Citizenship during Reconstruction, 1865-1877 |
| Journal Title | Bulletin of the German Historical Institute |
| Date of Publication | Spring 2010 |
| Issue ID | 46 |
| Location in Work | 61-76, ill. |
| ISSN | 1048-9134 |
| Abstract | Examines how German immigrants helped influence American citizenship after the Civil War and Emancipation, especially concerning the key issue of whether African-Americans would be granted the vote. Efford points out that German immigrants, particularly those who were refugees from the Revolutions of 1848 in Europe, were engaged in Reconstruction politics through the Republican Party and later -- after the unification of the German state -- the Liberal Republican Party. Highly conscious of their own new status as American citizens, German Americans infused with the ideals of liberal nationalism supported the claims of citizenship for black men in North America. The issue of political equality for women, however, was not upheld by German immigrant males. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | United States -- History/ Civil War, 1861-1865 -- German Americans/ Politics/ Citizenship/ African Americans/ Women |