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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History:
24 APR 1877, The Corrupt Deal was finalized, as, on orders from President Rutherford B. Hayes, federal troops withdrew from the state house in Louisiana—the last federally defended state house in the South—just 12 years after the end of the Civil War. This withdrawal marked the end of Reconstruction and paved the way for the unrestrained resurgence of white supremacist rule in the South, carrying with it the rapid deterioration of political rights for Black people.