Many Northerners, disgusted by Klan violence, lent their support to the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave the vote to black men in every state, and the First Reconstruction Act of 1867, which placed ...

After the Civil War, Black voters faced danger and violence—and they fought for political power against all odds.

Democratic Representative Maxine Waters of California introduced H.R. 10058, the Medicaid Breast Cancer Access to Treatment Act.

"This is a white man's government" "We regard the Reconstruction Acts (so called) of Congress as usurpations, and unconstitutional, revolutionary, and void" - Democratic Platform / / Th.