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Carr’s commission dates to the same year of the U.S. Congress’ Compromise of 1877, which effectively ended post-Civil War Reconstruction. I argue that this was not a coincidence but that Carr ...
After Reconstruction ended with the Compromise of 1877, the South quickly re-segregated. And in 1913, when Wilson became ...