The First Vote: Confederate Army Veterans | Reconstruction 360

Laura Cleaveland Oral History Interview, May 29, 1985

Laura Cleaveland received her master's degree in Innovation Management from Oregon State College in 1942 and worked as a Food Services Manager at Oregon State from 1946-1970. She was interviewed by Juliana Kelsall for the College of Home Economics Oral Histories (OH 11), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.

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These men represent white Southerners who fought for the Confederacy and are strongly opposed to the idea of Black men voting. Changes that Radical Reconstruction brought about met with vicious resistance from many white Southerners.