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Race, politics, and reconstruction : the first Black cadets at old West Point / edited by Rory McGovern and Ronald G. Machoian.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- The Black soldier in war and society : new narratives and critical perspectives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States Military Academy--Admission--History--19th century.
- United States Military Academy.
- United States Military Academy--Public opinion--History--19th century.
- African American military cadets--History--19th century.
- African American military cadets.
- Military cadets--United States--History--19th century.
- Military cadets.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
- Public opinion--United States.
- Public opinion.
- United States--Armed Forces--African Americans--History--19th century.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 228 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "The first in-depth study of racial integration at West Point after the Civil War. Race, Politics, and Reconstruction tells the story of racial integration at the United States Military Academy after the Civil War and spotlights the social environment and cultural currents that led to its failure. The first attempt to racially integrate West Point proved not simply a lost opportunity but an opportunity squandered with shocking degrees of forethought and deliberation. By investigating West Point's experience with race from varied and nuanced perspectives, including those of the first Black cadets, the US Army officer corps, white cadets, the Academy's faculty and staff, and the Black and white American publics, the contributors to this volume cast both the promise and the failure of integration at West Point as an illuminating microcosm of Reconstruction itself"-- Provided by publisher.
- "This book tells the story of racial integration at the United States Military Academy after the Civil War and spotlights the social environment and cultural currents that led to its failure"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- A Nursery of Treason Remade? Reconstruction Politics and the Rise and Fall of West Point's First Black Cadets / Adam H. Domby
- Making West Point "All American" : Integration as the Legacy of Civil War Service / Cameron D. McCoy
- The First African American Cadets at West Point / Makonen Campbell and Louisa Koebrich
- Trying Times on the Hudson : One Cadet's Witness to James Webster Smith's Travails at Old West Point / Ronald G. Machoian
- "You Need Not Think You Are on an Equality with Your Classmates" : Resistance to Integration at West Point / Rory McGovern
- "The Army Would Soon Grow Accustomed to It" : The Army Reacts to Integration at West Point / Jonathan D. Bratten
- The Integration of USMA in the Popular Press, 1870-1871 / Amanda M. Nagel
- "A Brief Moment in the Sun" : The Black Community's Response to a Failed Promise / Le'Trice D. Donaldson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8139-5192-5
- OCLC:
- 1433225348
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