Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco on Nostr: By 1900, much of what Reconstruction had built lay in ruins. Voting rights vanished. ...

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.