But getting to the Reconstruction Act of 1867 was a long, painful slog. Just look at this cartoon by the renowned illustrator Thomas Nast from September 1866. The artist came to the United States ...

And as Reconstruction-era corruption and violence spun out of control, he drew cartoons that criticized black legislators as strongly as earlier cartoons had championed black suffrage and lamented ...

Gates emphasizes that Reconstruction was destroyed not by ... the repellent but pervasive popular cartoon spectre of the black defilement of white women; the larger ideology of shame that also ...

A photo collected by W.E.B. DuBois shows shows African Americans in a woodworking shop at Claflin University, in Orangeburg, S.C, shortly after Reconstruction ended. (W.E. B. Dubois/W.E.B. Dubois ...

And as Reconstruction-era corruption and violence spun out of control, he drew cartoons that criticized black legislators as strongly as earlier cartoons had championed black suffrage and lamented ...