HIST 114-49Y

With Chris Lee, Ph.D.

William Lloyd Garrison: “That which is not just is not law”

Edmund Ruffin: Ardent pro-slavery Virginian commits suicide at theconclusion of the Civil War (Ruffin is the antithesis of Garrison)

Dred Scott Decision: African Americans were“beings of an inferior order and altogether unfitTo associate with the white race, either in social or political relations.”

Dred Scott and General Sherman are both buried at Calvary CemeteryIn St. Louis, Mo. The cemetery is located in an African American neighborhood -- one of the poorest, most dangerous in the region.

And Reconstruction led to the Colfax Massacre

And Jim Crow

And, we’ll search for links throughout ourStudy of the era … a key to applying history

People say that I look like Benjamin Franklin.If you need bifocals to read this, thank Mr Franklin!

Chris Lee: Ph.D. American History and Modern EuropeSt. Louis University

-23 years in the United States Air Force-2005 to present: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)-10 years with Peru State College