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The historic laws that enforced racial segregation and disenfranchisement in the United States, often cited as a comparison to modern voter ID laws.
A number of high‑profile Democrats and the have publicly opposed strict on the grounds that they disproportionately disenfranchise Black, Native, elderly, low‑income and student voters and therefore a...
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...