Black community Quote by Ron Chernow

“what white Southerners called “redemption” and others deemed simply the return to power of the Democrats, who sufficiently intimidated, cheated and otherwise discouraged Republicans,…

— H.W. Brands

“When a congressional committee reported in February on the Mississippi bloodshed, it concluded that the nation had arrived at a crossroads and “must either…

— Ron Chernow

In 1948, northern liberals inserted a civil rights plank into the national Democratic platform, prompting a walkout of Southern delegations - which then coalesced…

— Steve Kornacki

“Terrorism carried the day. Federal troops withdrew from the South in 1877. The dream of Reconstruction died. For the next century, political violence was…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Especially in the Deep South, where Democratic victory was impossible without the neutralization of part of the black electorate, it also implied a revival…

— Eric Foner

“You can expect that out of Federal people and to make it worse this was a Republican gang that cared nothing for the opinion…

— Charles Portis

“after the Civil War both parties now were controlled by capitalists. They were divided along North-South lines, still hung over with the animosities of…

— Howard Zinn

“Among other embarrassments, at the time of which I now write, was the fact that the government wanted to get out all the cotton…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“The news of Sherman’s success reached the North instantaneously, and set the country all aglow. This was the first great political campaign for the…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“The new Republican Party was formed to denounce the act and stop the expansion of slavery, and the abolitionists began to clean their rifles and…

— Andrew Himes

The only thing we took out was the Constitution of the State of Mississippi and the interpretation of the Constitution. We had 63,000 people…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

I was just an infant when [Fannie Lou] Hamer spoke - barley even awake in the world. But here she was, pressing the Democratic…

— Leah D. Daughtry