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Author Mixon, Gregory, author.

Title Show thyself a man : Georgia State troops, colored, 1865-1905 / Gregory Mixon.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Southern dissent
Southern dissent.
Summary "In this social and political history, Gregory Mixon explores the ways African Americans in postbellum Georgia used the militia as a vehicle to secure full citizenship, respectability, and a more stable place in society. In telling the forty-year history of the black militia in Georgia and the determined disbandment process that whites undertook to destroy it, Mixon not only shows the key role that militia participation played in African Americans' search for citizenship after the Civil War, but he also connects this chapter to the larger history of militia participation by African descendant people throughout the Western hemisphere and Latin America"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The search for freedom : black militiamen in nineteenth-century North America -- "We called it 'The Band of Brothers'" : black independent militia formation and the Johnson County insurrection of 1875 -- Creating the Georgia Militia : blacks and the road to state militia companies, 1865-1880 -- "Any person capable of doing military duty" : The Georgia Volunteers, 1878-1890s -- "Be thou strong therefore and show thyself a man" : Georgia Volunteers, colored, 1889-1895 -- The road to disbandment, 1896-1899 -- The new era, 1899-1905.
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Subject Georgia. Militia -- History.
Georgia. Militia.
History.
African American soldiers -- Georgia -- History.
African American soldiers.
Georgia.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Georgia -- History.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Georgia -- Race relations -- History.
Race relations.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Mixon, Gregory. Show thyself a man. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016] 9780813062723 (DLC) 2016004177 (OCoLC)918969666
ISBN 9780813055879 (electronic book)
0813055873 (electronic book)
9780813062723
0813062721