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A Revolution Gone Backward: The Black Response to National Politics, 1876-1896 Bess Beatty
A Revolution Gone Backward: The Black Response to National Politics, 1876-1896
Bess Beatty
While newly liberated American blacks were relatively free to participate in the nation's political life during the decade following the Civil War, with the end of Reconstruction and the withdrawal of federal protection, constitutional guarantees quickly were curtailed.
257 pages