After the Civil War, during the Reconstruction period (1865–1877), newly freed African Americans, along with some white allies, made significant strides in establishing educational infrastructure, ...

The Democratic Congress, however, only accepted those results—on this day in 1877—once Hayes promised to withdraw federal troops from the South, thus ending Reconstruction. In an editorial ...

The Ku Klux Klan (founded in 1865) and the Knights of the White ... Their efforts succeeded, and with the end of Reconstruction in 1877, white supremacy became the reality of the South.