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Reconstruction


1986 1st black lt Governor since reconstruction sworn in (Douglas Wilder of Va)

1957 President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction

1946 Gaylord Birch, drummer, Reconstruction, Honey Dripper

1939 Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer, Reconstruction

1935 Misja Mengelberg, Dutch jazz pianist/composer, Reconstruction

1932 Reconstruction Finance Corp organized

1921 P B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84

1918 George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies

1915 Robert Smalls, Reconstruction congressman, dies at 75 in SC

1877 Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South, dies in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 56

1877 President Hayes removes Federal troops from LA, Reconstruction ends

1874 Armed Democrats seize Texas government ending Radical Reconstruction

1868 Thaddeus Stevens, architect of Radical Reconstruction, dies at 76

1867 Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto

1867 Reconstruction enacted

1867 Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration

1867 Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Johnson's veto

1867 Congress passed the 1st Reconstruction Act

1865 President Johnson proclaims reconstruction confederate states

1865 Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction

1863 Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South

1836 Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem

1821 Nathan Bedford Forrest, born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South

1815 Anna Ella Carroll, U.S., civil war writer, Reconstruction

1811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator

1535 Jacob Van Campen, Reconstruction bishop, beheaded


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