And as Reconstruction-era corruption and violence spun out of control, he drew cartoons that criticized black legislators as strongly as earlier cartoons had championed black suffrage and lamented ...

In his political cartoons, he repeatedly framed Johnson as a danger to the country and to African-Americans, ... The 1873 Colfax Massacre Crippled the Reconstruction Era. April 13, 2016.

This view came to dominate public thinking from 1890 until about 1940, when world events and the Great Migration began to reshape the country’s perception of race and racism. During this period ...

This past July, the National Park Service's National Historic Landmarks Program published "The Era of Reconstruction 1861-1900," a 165-page guide for educators, students and others.

A cartoon from a U.S. newspaper from 1880 reads: 'Terrorism in the South. Citizens beaten and shot at." Granger "E.B. Beware!K.K.K." So read the note found on the schoolhouse door by its intended ...

During the Reconstruction era, the U.S. abolished slavery and guaranteed Black men the right to vote. But it was marred by tragedy and political infighting—and ended with a disastrous backlash.

It’s therefore appropriate that Section 241 and other Reconstruction-era laws are precisely those that the American legal system is turning to in response to a former president who stoked the ...

Reconstruction gets lost in our national story, and in American history survey classes: neither a bloody conflict like the Civil War nor a period in living memory like Jim Crow.

COLUMBIA, S.C.— The historic South Carolina city of Charleston has elected its first Republican mayor since the Reconstruction Era.. William Cogswell, formerly a Republican state lawmaker ...

The National Constitution Center’s Civil War and Reconstruction exhibition is accompanied by a play adapted entirely from historic texts. “FOURTEEN” will be performed four times a day, five days a ...

And as Reconstruction-era corruption and violence spun out of control, he drew cartoons that criticized black legislators as strongly as earlier cartoons had championed black suffrage and lamented ...