Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American Civil War.

In 1969, he became the first African American since the Reconstruction era to have been elected as mayor in a Mississippi city, Fayette in Jefferson County.

They escorted and protected nine black students ' entry to Little Rock Central High School, an all-white public school, for the first time since the Reconstruction era.

On the lecture circuit, he spoke at many colleges around the country during the Reconstruction era, including Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1873.

* Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era

In his dissent, Justice Marshall explained the history of the Section 2 in relation to the Post-Civil War Reconstruction era:

The women's suffrage movement took hold after the civil war, during the Reconstruction era ( 1865 – 1877 ).

During the post-war Reconstruction era, Virginia adopted a constitution which provided for free public schools, and guaranteed political, civil, and voting rights.

The Reconstruction era of the United States brought a legacy of bitterness and segregation that lasted until the 1960s.

Beginning of the Reconstruction era under President Andrew Johnson ( 1865 – 1869 ).

The Reconstruction Period ( 1906 ), full length history of era ; Dunning School approach ; 570 pp ; ch 12 on Alabama

He served as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a secret vigilante organization which launched a reign of terrorism against African-Americans, Northerners that had moved to the postwar South, Southerners who supported the Union, and Republicans during the Reconstruction era in the Southern United States.

* Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era ( United States )

The setting of the film is the deep South of the Reconstruction era.

Harris ' original Uncle Remus stories were all set after the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery ( Harris himself, born in 1845, was a racial reconciliation activist writer and journalist of the Reconstruction era ).

The film makes several indirect references to the Reconstruction era: clothing is in the newer late-Victorian style ; Uncle Remus is free to leave the plantation at will ; black field hands are sharecroppers, etc.

The South was eventually defeated and, in the Reconstruction era, the United States ended slavery, extended rights to African Americans, and readmitted secessionist states with loyal governments.

Escambia County was established after the American Civil War, on December 10, 1868 during the Reconstruction era.

* Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era ( United States )

* Reverend Dr. William Archer Rutherfoord Goodwin grew up on farm in southern Nelson County during the Reconstruction era after the American Civil War.

The notorious Sutton-Taylor feud began as a Reconstruction era county law enforcement issue between the Taylor family and lawman William E. Sutton.

A quickly rebuilt railroad returned prosperity in the Reconstruction era.

In 1868, under the revised state constitution during the Reconstruction era, South Carolina districts were organized as counties.

The county is named for the Reconstruction era Pennsylvania politician Thaddeus Stevens.

* The Reconstruction of Justice Salmon P. Chase: In Re Turner and Texas v. White ISBN 978-0-7006-0835-5

This notion was also evident in the Waite Court's decisions dealing with the scope and meaning of the Reconstruction Amendments and the rights of blacks in the south.

* Durrill, Wayne K. " Political Legitimacy and Local Courts: ' Politicks at Such a Rage ' in a Southern Community during Reconstruction " in Journal of Southern History, Vol.

He wrote Only One Place of Redress: African-Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal ( Duke U. Press 2001 ), and Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform ( U. Chicago Press 2011 ).

By December 1864, the Lincoln plan of Reconstruction had been enacted in Louisiana and the legislature sent two Senators and five Representatives to take their seats in Washington.

The Wade – Davis Bill of 1864 was a bill proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland.

Among Wilson's published works are: History of the Anti-Slavery Measures of the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses, 1861-64 ( 1864 ); History of the Reconstruction Measures of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses, 1865-68 ( 1868 ); and an exceedingly valuable, although partisan, publication, History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, ( three volumes, 1872 – 77 ).

He was appointed as Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in the Reconstruction governmentIn 1864.

The Radicals passed their own Reconstruction plan through Congress in 1864, but Lincoln vetoed it and was putting his own policies in effect when he was assassinated in 1865.

* From 1864 to 1871, during the era of Reconstruction, the Great Seal was not used for state business.

From 1848 until Richard M. Nixon's victory in 1972, Texas voted for the Democratic candidate for president in every election except 1928, 1952, and 1956 ( it did not vote in 1864 and 1868 due to the Civil War and Reconstruction ).

On February 15, 1864, he reported from committee a bill placing the process of Reconstruction under the control of Congress, and stipulating that the Confederate states, as a condition of being re-admitted to the Union would disfranchise all important civil and military officers of the Confederacy, abolish slavery, and repudiate all debts incurred by or with the sanction of the Confederate government.

In 1864, he even bought Thomas Jefferson ’ s Monticello, but it would be stripped from him under Reconstruction.

* 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage ) ( d. 1995 )

As president, he implemented his own form of Presidential Reconstruction – a series of proclamations directing the seceded states to hold conventions and elections to re-form their civil governments.

As president, he implemented his own form of Presidential Reconstruction – a series of proclamations directing the seceded states to hold conventions and elections to re-form their civil governments.

" The Transubstantiation of a Poor White ", in Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward the History of the Part Which Black People Have Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860 – 1880 ( 1935 ).

Unionism and Reconstruction in Tennessee, 1860 – 1869 ( 1934 ) online edition

* Harper's Weekly 150 cartoons on elections 1860-1912 ; Reconstruction topics ; Chinese exclusion ; plus American Political Prints from the Library of Congress, 1766 – 1876

Gone with the Wind takes place in the southern United States in the state of Georgia during the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ) and the Reconstruction Era ( 1865 – 1877 ) that followed the war.

* 1866 – Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U. S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.

* 1870 – Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.

* 1867 – The U. S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.

* 1872 – Reconstruction: U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.

* 1870 – Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.

A prolific writer, Remey wrote numerous published and personal articles promoting the Bahá ' í Faith, including ` Abdu ' l-Bahá – The Center of the Covenant and the five volume A Comprehensive History of the Bahá ' í Movement ( 1927 ), The Bahá ' í Revelation and Reconstruction ( 1919 ), Constructive Principles of The Bahá ' í Movement ( 1917 ), and The Bahá ' í Movement: A Series of Nineteen Papers ( 1912 ) are a few of the titles of the many works Remey produced while ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was still alive.

* 1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

" The Commemoration of Robert E. Lee's Death and the Obstruction of Reconstruction in New Orleans ," Civil War History, Volume 51 # 2 June 2005, pp. 135 – 150

During Reconstruction, Wilson lived in Columbia, South Carolina, the state capital, from 1870 – 1874, where his father was professor at the Columbia Theological Seminary.

* December 24 – Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form the Ku Klux Klan in the American South, to resist Reconstruction and intimidate " carpetbaggers " and " scalawags ", as well as to repress the freed slaves.

* June 25 – International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( IBRD ) ( World Bank ) begins operations.

* July 24 – Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U. S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.

* January 26 – Reconstruction: Virginia rejoins the Union.

* Fitzgerald, Michael R. Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860 – 1890.