Most blacks attend the historically black institutions created in the post-Reconstruction era, which remain almost all black.

America's home-grown apartheid, the Jim Crow law of the post-Reconstruction era, was at last off the books.

In the immediate post-Reconstruction era, contributors to The Century debated what should be done about the postwar South and the newly free slaves, generally advocating for amicable relations between the regions and national unity.

That, then, was the collective rallying cry of the entire organization as it embarked on its first season of the post-reconstruction era.

Mr. Jackson likened the structure for assistance to the region, federal financial aid managed under local control in the states, to the post-Reconstruction era that allowed segregation to take hold in the South.

Early tribal leaders worked to start the process of reorganizing tribal government and gaining recognition, but in the post-Reconstruction era with the rise of Jim Crow laws, they found little support.

He points out that at every darkest stage of civil rights history, the light has eventually broken through: to the framers of the Constitution, slavery seemed inevitable; to the post-Reconstruction era, segregation seemed insurmountable.

According to popular stereotypes during the post-Reconstruction era, "Black Buck" was a black man (usually muscular or tall) who defies white will and is largely destructive to American society.

Phillip Washington, once the driver on Sandy Island's Pipe Down plantation, bought land here and established small self-governing communities that provided insulation from the racism of the post-Reconstruction era and beyond.

America's Gilded Age, the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction era, from 1865 to 1901 saw unprecedented economic and industrial prosperity.