After the end of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War American South, those who supported the Confederacy eventually gained control back over the state governments. Though some southern states like South Carolina for example had more freedmen than white residents in the population. Knowing they could not out-vote African-Americans, white racists started organizations that stopped freedmen from voting with fear and violence and punished white people who supported the rights of freedmen and voted for (or ran-as) liberal politicians.
Such a sad time for our country. Horrible, really.
ReplyDeleteAnd still such nuts today, pathetic indeed,.
ReplyDeleteSuch a terrible time.
ReplyDeleteWow, awful.
ReplyDeleteReconstruction and Jim Crow laws are not anything for Americans to be proud of.
ReplyDeleteThere is a lot in America's past that are shameful.
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