Topics Related to Reconstruction

Confederate captain; legislator; member of conventions of 1868, '75; conservative leader in Reconstruction period. His home was 100 ft. S.

First black to serve in Congress. Native of N.C. Mississippi senator, 1870-1871. Operated own barbershop here, 1840s.

Governor, 1870-1874, during Reconstruction, member State Convention of 1865. His home stood here.

Est. in 1867 as Biddle Memorial Institute for freedmen. Became a university, 1877. Present name adopted in 1923.

Methodist. Begun 1874; reorganized as woman's college, 1926. Named for Lyman Bennett of Troy, N.Y. Campus 2 bl. S.

First African American to serve in Congress, he represented Mississippi in Senate, 1870-1871. Born in Fayetteville.

Delegates resolved to seek civil rights for the state's freedpeople. Met here, St. Paul A.M.E. in 865 and 1866.

Founded by Presbyterian elder Wm. Peace 1857 as school for women; opened 1872. Main building used as Confederate hospital & by Freedmen's Bureau.

Newly freed people, 1866, rallied at Hammond’s Hill, here, for voting rights, fair wages, self-defense. Became early grassroots civil rights organization.

Represented the state's "Black Second" district, U.S. House, 1897-1901. Last black Southerner in Congress for 72 years. Lived two blocks east.