@article{1387888,
      recid = {1387888},
      author = {McPherson, James M.},
      title = {The abolitionist legacy : from Reconstruction to the NAACP  /},
      publisher = {Princeton University Press,},
      address = {Princeton, N.J. :},
      pages = {xvi, 438 pages :},
      year = {1995},
      note = {First edition published in 1975.},
      abstract = {Building on arguments presented in The Struggle for  Equality, Civil War historian James McPherson shows that  many abolitionists did not retreat from Reconstruction, as  historical accounts frequently lead us to believe, but  instead vigorously continued the battle for black rights  long after the Civil War. Tracing the activities of nearly  300 abolitionists and their descendants, he reveals that  some played a crucial role in the establishment of schools  and colleges for southern blacks, while others formed the  vanguard of liberals who founded the NAACP in 1910. The  author's examination of the complex and unhappy fate of  Reconstruction clarifies the uneasy partnership of northern  and southern white liberals after 1870, the tensions  between black activists and white neo-abolitionists, the  evolution of resistance to racist ideologies, and the  origins of the NAACP.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1387888},
}