Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) has become the longest-serving Black senator in U.S. history, as the 119th Congress begins Friday. Scott was appointed to the Senate in 2012 by then-Gov. Nikki Haley (R ...

Charles Sumner, the senator from ... humiliations that black people face. And the Civil Rights of 1875 is an attempt to address them. Ted Tunnell: The second Reconstruction is what historians ...

The treaty is opposed by the Senate Foreign ... for the presidency. Reconstruction policies officially end. The South codifies and enforces segregation. Violations of black civil rights will ...

“Having Senator Booker use his body as Black people have done in this country ... which was the first civil rights bill passed into law post-Reconstruction Era. Ultimately Thurmond’s ...

She continued, “This isn’t new. It’s the same mechanism that was used to capture fugitive slaves and suppress Black resistance during Reconstruction.” In 1850, Congress passed a law that ...

No person shall be a Senator or Representative ... the resistance to the passage of Reconstruction legislation and had supported the imposition of the onerous Black Codes on the freedmen.