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The set of laws that enforced racial segregation and disenfranchisement in the United States.
Racist, dehumanizing tropes about Black people have operated as cultural tools to justify exploitation, violence, and political exclusion from slavery through Jim Crow and into contemporary media and ...
Rutherford B. Hayes played a consequential role in the formal end of Reconstruction by accepting the political bargain that removed federal military enforcement from the South, a move that directly we...
Rutherford B. Hayes’s removal of the last federal troops from Southern statehouses in spring 1877 is widely identified by historians and contemporary sources as the decisive act that ended Reconstruct...