#OTD Apr 24, 1877: President Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew federal troops from the state house in Louisiana, marking the end of Reconstruction and the resurgence of white supremacist rule in the South and the disenfranchisement of Black voters. #History calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…
• Jim Crow laws were enacted by Southern Democrat-dominated state legislatures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to impose racial segregation and undo political/economic gains made by Black people during Reconstruction.
Archaeological reconstruction of the Kincaid Mounds in Illinois at its height around 1300 AD. This painting is on the Ohio River floodwall at Paducah, Kentucky and the Kincaid site is on the other side of the river. Kincaid had a huge protective palisade wall with bastions.
• When federal troops withdrew from the South after Reconstruction ended, Democrats’ white supremacy laws re-emerged with a vengeance, enforced by the paramilitary arm of the Democratic Party, the KKK, which was used to suppress blacks from voting Republican.
To prove whether or no John O'Keefe's injuries came from a motor vehicle collision the defense is calling 4 experts with extensive trial experience, previously hired by the FBI, 3 of whom have PhD's, and all of whom are experts in crash reconstruction and injury causation. The