Reconstruction Era

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This is really the fabric of America – like this idea of a maze incorporates the Civil Rights movement, the Reconstruction Era.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2023

Also, in some southern states, convict leasing was essentially a new form of slavery that started during the Reconstruction Era and went on for decades.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2023

The scheme had a vague historical precedent and was rooted, at least in theory, in a post- Reconstruction Era law designed to address how to handle disputed elections.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2022

But the promise of the Reconstruction Era amendments was cut short and did not fully come to life until the civil rights movement sparked the Second Reconstruction during the 1960s.

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2019

In 1867, at the dawn of the Reconstruction Era, no black man held political office in the South, yet three years later, at least 15 percent of all Southern elected officials were black.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander