Rutherford B. Hayes

Died 1893

As part of a political deal, the last federal troops were pulled out of the South, ending the Reconstruction era. Without soldiers to protect them, Black Ame…

• 1877 CE

  Reconstruction Ends

  As part of a political deal, the last federal troops were pulled out of the South, ending the Reconstruction era. Without soldiers to protect them, Black Americans in the South quickly lost many of the rights they had gained.