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Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1970 - 6/30/1971

Funding Totals

$9,500.00 (approved)
$9,500.00 (awarded)

The Color Line in Mississippi Politics, 1865-1915

FAIN: FB-10548-70

Charles W. Sallis
Millsaps College (Jackson, MS 39210-0002)

Impact of the Negro in Mississippi politics in the fifty years following the Civil War. Expansion of fellow' dissertation. Deals with Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction policies, the Freedman's Bureau, white resistance and intimidation, the KuKluxKlan, the ascendancy of the hill farmer ("redneck") and the rise of Negrophobes James K. Vardman and Theodore G. Bilbo as the dominant politicians in the state.