The Republicans then passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867, which set the conditions the Southern states had to accept before they could be readmitted to the union, including ratification of the ...

Jackson, MS () Mississippi has a long history of voter suppression. An 1890 rule that permanently strips people convicted of certain crimes of their right to ...

Vann Woodward aptly calls “the Second American Reconstruction ... the first state civil rights act a month after Appomattox; Pennsylvania followed in 1867, New York and Kansas in 1874.

During the post-Civil War period of “Reconstruction”, many new federal ... to vote or whose male ancestors could vote prior to 1867. While the Jim Crow statutes were in theory meant to provide ...

The Queen’s act was criticised as being unconstitutional ... Bedlam (the state criminal lunatic asylum). He was released in 1867 and deported to Australia. All of the Queen’s assailants ...

We are yet too near, and the angle of vision is yet too large, to enable us to see perfectly its vast proportions, or correctly estimate its individual acts ... the work of reconstruction began ...

The landscape of the 19th century and the Reconstruction Era in particular is a critical period in U.S. history. In fact, sources claim it as the nexus of Black activism ...

Israel Wants Peaceful Gaza but Unsure on Funding Reconstruction, Says Economy Minister By Elisa Martinuzzi, Brad Haynes DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) -Israel's economy minister said on Wednesday it ...

it will pass resolutions declaring that, in its former action it was governed by an unbiased construction of the reconstruction acts of Congress, and the new Constitution of the state, and that it ...