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Tiffany Mitchell Patterson

African-American men voting in a state election in the south during reconstruction in an 1867 illustration from Harper's Weekly. That year in the reconstruction states 703,000 Blacks and 627,000 Whites voted. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

What everyone should know about Reconstruction 150 years after the 15th Amendment’s ratification

Tiffany Mitchell Patterson