mar 4, 1877 - Compromise of 1877
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Whatever gains African Americans had made in the states comprising the Confederacy during the Reconstruction period, these eroded quickly after the withdrawal of federal troops in 1877 in the deal that resulted in Rutherford B Hayes becoming president.
Combined with US Supreme Court decisions that weakened and narrowed the 14th Amendment so that states had a great deal of latitude in application and enforcement, the end of Reconstruction meant legal, economic and political inferiority for African Americans in the South.
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U.S. Civil Rights Movement
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