Reconstruction Era

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The legal cases are based on a Reconstruction Era constitutional amendment that was intended to bar Confederate officials from serving in the U.S. government.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2023

This is really the fabric of America – like this idea of a maze incorporates the Civil Rights movement, the Reconstruction Era.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2023

Also, in some southern states, convict leasing was essentially a new form of slavery that started during the Reconstruction Era and went on for decades.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2023

Many leaders in the Reconstruction Era underestimated the Redeemers — the Southern wing of the Democratic Party — who rose up to restore their political power and white supremacy.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2021

In 1867, at the dawn of the Reconstruction Era, no black man held political office in the South, yet three years later, at least 15 percent of all Southern elected officials were black.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander