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April 1877

Reconstruction Ends

In April 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew federal troops from Louisiana and South Carolina, ending Reconstruction. Without federal protection, white supremacists used violence and legal barriers to strip African Americans of their newly won rights, ushering in decades of Jim Crow segregation.

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People: Rutherford B. Hayes
Sources
1. Reconstruction Era - National Park Service2. The End of Reconstruction - Library of Congress
April 24, 1919

Birth of David Blackwell

David Blackwell, a pioneering African American mathematician and statistician, was born in Nashville, Tennessee.

People: David Blackwell
Sources
1. David Blackwell — The National Academy of Sciences2. David Blackwell — Mathematics Genealogy Project

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