7/23 The southern Democrats basically said "look, #RutherfordBHayes, you and your Republicans can have the White House if you'll withdraw your federal troops from our South and just leave us states the rights to do our own thing down here."

As we saw in the massacres thread, African-American registered voters in, for example, Louisiana, went from ~130,000 in 1896 to just ~1300 by 1904.

Doing their own thing meant the states' rights to maintain and enforce systematic #WhiteSupremacy.

I love how #HeatherCoxRichardson ties current events to historical ones. Today I learned about the election on #RutherfordBHayes and the whitewashing of the end of Reconstruction comparing it to #Desantis actions in Florida against #LGBTQIA+ youth.

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/march-2-2023

#LettersFromAnAmerican