whose purpose is to obstruct and destroy Reconstruction government, to assassinate or intimidate black and white Republican officials, to use violence to prevent people from voting. And this is ...

Monuments first appeared during the Reconstruction era – 1865 to 1877 – when Southern states were occupied ... for Republicans at that time, were voting less in areas with monuments.

That August, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in response. (Bettmann via Getty Images) Papers also drew a line to federal involvement in Southern states in ... bitter as anything enacted ...

The systematic assault on elections has begun to recall the most politically fraught period in our history, the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era of the 1860s and 1870s. Voting is essential in any ...

Southern litigants brought a slew of challenges to the Reconstruction Act ... majority of the Roberts Court has gutted the Voting Rights Act." Let's start there: What can be done to restore ...

But Republican dominance waned with the passing of Reconstruction, and some Southern states effectively neutralized the 14th and 15th Amendments. That is why the Voting Rights Act and subsequent ...

Blacks were voting overwhelmingly for Republicans. Many southern states were majority ... people by the Ku Klux Klan just during the brief Reconstruction period. Nearly 6,500 were killed by ...

Monuments first appeared during the Reconstruction era – 1865 to 1877 – when Southern states were occupied ... for Republicans at that time, were voting less in areas with monuments.