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#Reconstruction-Sabotage

Events indexed under #Reconstruction-Sabotage — 12 entries in the record.

12 events From May 29, 1865 To Oct 15, 1883 Open in filter view →
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1865 · 2 events1866 · 1 event1868 · 1 event1873 · 1 event1874 · 3 events1876 · 2 events1878 · 1 event1883 · 1 event18651883
DateEventLanesStatus
1883-10-15Civil Rights Cases Strike Down 1875 Act, Legitimizing Jim Crow
U.S. Supreme Court · Joseph P. Bradley · John Marshall Harlan
confirmed
1878-06-18Posse Comitatus Act Restricts Federal Military from Domestic Law Enforcement
Rutherford B. Hayes · U.S. Congress
confirmed
1876-07-08Hamburg Massacre: Red Shirts Murder Black Militia to Suppress Voting
Red Shirts · Benjamin Tillman · Wade Hampton III · Matthew Butler · +1
confirmed
1876-03-27United States v. Cruikshank Guts Federal Civil Rights Enforcement
U.S. Supreme Court · Joseph P. Bradley · Colfax Massacre Perpetrators
confirmed
1874-12-07Vicksburg Massacre: White League Kills 150-300 Black Citizens, Overthrows Sheriff
White League · Peter Crosby · Andrew J. Gilmer · Ulysses S. Grant
confirmed
1874-09-14Battle of Liberty Place: White League Stages Armed Coup Against Louisiana Government
White League · James Longstreet · William Pitt Kellogg · Ulysses S. Grant · +1
confirmed
1874-08-30Coushatta Massacre: White League Assassinates Entire Republican Parish Government
White League · Dick Coleman · Thomas Floyd · Marshall Twitchell · +1
confirmed
1873-04-13Colfax Massacre: 150 Black Americans Murdered to Overthrow Local Government
White Supremacist Militia · Ku Klux Klan · Knights of White Camellia · Grant Parish Black Militia
confirmed
1868-02-24Andrew Johnson Impeached for Obstructing Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson · Edwin Stanton · U.S. House of Representatives · Radical Republicans · +2
confirmed
1866-02-19Johnson Vetoes Freedmen's Bureau Expansion, Sabotaging Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson · Lyman Trumbull · Republican Congress · Freedmen's Bureau
confirmed
1865-12-24Ku Klux Klan Founded as Terrorist Organization to Restore White Supremacy
Nathan Bedford Forrest · Confederate Veterans · Calvin E. Jones · John B. Kennedy · +4
confirmed
1865-05-29Andrew Johnson Begins Mass Pardons of Confederate Leaders
Andrew Johnson · Confederate Leaders · Republican Congress
confirmed