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2026-06-06 18:34 UTC
By 1900, much of what Reconstruction had built lay in ruins. Voting rights vanished. Segregation hardened. White supremacy became law.
The South did not overturn Reconstruction by defeating the Union Army.
It overturned Reconstruction by winning the argument about what freedom, citizenship, and democracy were supposed to mean.
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Image:,State troopers watch as marchers cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama as part of a civil rights march on March 9, 1965. Bettmann Archive.
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@Deglassco@mastodon.social 2026-06-06 18:40
Image: African American soldier in Union uniform with his wife and two daughters, 1863-1865. Liljenquist Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppss.00400 Intellectual Map Primary Sources Congressional Globe. 39th Cong., 1st sess. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1866. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30867/ Douglass, Frederick. The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass. Reconstruction and After. Edited by Philip S. Foner. Vol IV. New York: International Publishers, 1950–1975. https://archive.org/details/lifewritingsoffr0000unse/page/n5/mode/1up 5/14