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Wikipedia: The "nadir of American race relations" is a phrase referring to the period in United States history from the end of Reconstruction to the beginning of the 20th Century, when racism was deemed to be worse than in any other post-bellum period. During this period, African Americans lost many civil rights gains made during Reconstruction. Anti-black violence, lynchings, segregation, legal racial discrimination, and expressions of white supremacy increased.
![[A postcard showing the burned body of Jesse Washington, Waco, Texas, 1916]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Lynching_of_jesse_washington_s.jpg "A postcard showing the burned body of Jesse Washington, Waco, Texas, 1916")
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![["Colored Rule in a Reconstructed State", Harper's Weekly, March 14, 1874]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Colored_rule_s.jpg "\"Colored Rule in a Reconstructed State\", Harper's Weekly, March 14, 1874")
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![["And Not This Man?", Harper's Weekly, August 5, 1865]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Andnothisman_s.jpg "\"And Not This Man?\", Harper's Weekly, August 5, 1865")
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![[Hiram Revels, the first African American Senator, elected in 1870 from Mississippi]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/Hiramrevels.jpeg "Hiram Revels, the first African American Senator, elected in 1870 from Mississippi")
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