March 2 is rarely celebrated as the birthday of our America — but it should be. This was the day in 1867 when Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the first Reconstruction Act, which ...
Historians say that this wave of laws making it harder to vote echo the backlash to the electoral gains made by African Americans during Reconstruction (1865-1877), the era of political revolution in ...
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At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency, white supremacists were conducting a reign of terror throughout the South. In outright defiance of the ...
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March 2 is rarely celebrated as the birthday of our America — but it should be. This was the day in 1867 when Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the first Reconstruction Act, which ...
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