With the disputed 1876 election resolved by the Compromise of 1877, a new administration takes office and federal troops are soon withdrawn from the South.
At a Glance
- Date
- 4 March 1877
- Location
- Washington, D.C.
- Key people
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Category
- Emancipation & Reconstruction
- Source
- Compromise of 1877; inaugural records · Library of Congress
What It Meant Then
It abandoned Black Southerners to the rise of Jim Crow and disenfranchisement.
What It Means Now
The collapse of Reconstruction shaped nearly a century of racial subjugation.
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