As if his own biography — being the first Black Republican elected to the Senate since Reconstruction — isn’t a sign of how racism endures. In his endorsement of Trump, Scott suggested the ...

Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over ...

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) has become the longest-serving Black senator in U.S. history, as the 119th Congress begins Friday. Scott was appointed to the Senate in 2012 by then-Gov. Nikki Haley (R ...

Henry L. Marsh III, the first Black mayor of Richmond and a figure who embodied the rise of African American power in the ...

Library of Congress Historians describe white Southerners ... rise to white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction. Drew Gilpin Faust: Mary Lee of Winchester [Virginia ...

Southern legislatures begin drafting "Black Codes" to re-establish ... March 2: The new session of Congress begins to pass additional reconstruction laws, overriding President Johnson's vetoes ...

started his 13th year becoming the nation’s longest-serving Black senator in American history while Graham, 69 and the first nonincumbent Republican senator from the state since Reconstruction ...