Professor Gates teaches all of us (again!)
"Southern 'Redeemers' snuffed out the first Black Power movement"
From 2000 duly elected African American officials to zero in just 12 years - how gains of Reconstruction were obliterated, and only 70 years later did the damage too slowly begin to reverse.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/jim-crow-laws.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Gates' book, Stony The Road, is an even more shocking and thorough walk through this period of history we were never taught.