jan 1, 1877 - 1877 - Following the compromise that saw Rutherford B. Hayes ushered into the presidency over the popular majority of Samuel J. Tilden, reconstruction ended and the federal government relinquished power in the South. With executive power there handed back to the states, Republicanism collapsed and the Jim Crow era began, disenfranchising African Americans once more. The South would be ruled by regional rather than federal interests for nearly a century, emerging as a solid voting bloc that often challenged
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