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African-American history between emancipation and the civil rights movement
Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction eraIn 1876, the presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden ended in a national crisis that would reshape American democracy for…
Compromise of 1877On the morning of the 2nd of March 1877, President pro tempore Thomas W. Ferry announced that Rutherford B. Hayes had been elected president by an electoral…
Reconstruction eraOn the 9th of April 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
JuneteenthOn the 19th of June 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived on the island of Galveston to take command of more than 2,000 federal troops.