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April: In its 5-3 Texas v. White decision, the U.S. Supreme Court declares Radical Reconstruction constitutional, stating that secession from the Union is illegal. September 24: Black Friday ...

In the Reconstruction Act of 1867 ... black suffrage would be insecure without a constitutional amendment and that the governments of the ex-Confederate states could not be returned to local ...

“The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution” (W.W. Norton and Co.), by Eric Foner It took the United States two tries to get the Constitution right. The first ...