Just look at this cartoon by the renowned illustrator ... A number of Reconstruction Acts continued to be passed, forcing the southern states to ratify the 14th Amendment (which provided ...

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 ...

In the background, Nast drew an eagle perched on a rock to depict the radical Republicans, who exercised federal control over the vanquished South under Reconstruction. In the cartoon, Nast (1840 ...

"No people were ever so cruelly subjected to the rule of ignorant, vicious and criminal classes as were the southern people in the awful days of reconstruction," the New Orleans Times-Picayune ...

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 ...