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Paper Abstract: This brief paper reviews a chapter that covers the period from Reconstruction to the victory of white supremacy in the South and the enactment of Jim Crow laws. Paper Introduction: Losing Peace This chapter covers the period after the Civil War fromReconstruction to the enactment of the first Jim Crow laws and segregationin the South in the s The chapter provides four sections Thestruggle for domination the overthrow of Reconstruction themovement for disfranchisement and the triumph of white supremacy Losing The struggle for domination details the conflict betweenRepublicans and Democrats with widely varying agendas and how thisstruggle influenced the unfolding of Reconstruction Secret racist orders like the Knights of the White Camellia Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. A "reign of terror" was unleashed on blacks (Losing 279). Tennesseeenacted laws against intermarriage as did all other states in the South,and Tennessee also adopted the first "Jim Crow" or "segregation law," andthe rest of the South followed their lead once again (Losing 296). In thissense, despite the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction; anotherreprehensible chapter in American race relations was writ.Works Cited"Losing the Peace" (Chapter 13). The removal of troops did little to keeporder. The overthrow of Reconstruction shows how the process gradually diedout, from the loosening of stringent laws and other restraints. Whitesoutherners were pardoned, but clashes over race marked the period,especially the bloodiest one of the era in the town of Hamburg, SouthCarolina, in 1876 (Losing 279). The chapter provides four sections: 1) Thestruggle for domination, 2) the overthrow of Reconstruction, 3) themovement for disfranchisement, and 4) the triumph of white supremacy(Losing 272). Secret racist orders,like the Knights of the White Camellia and Ku Klux Klan, were formed bysoutherners determined to shape their own destinies and control blacks. pp. 272-297. Losing Peace This chapter covers the period after the Civil War fromReconstruction to the enactment of the first Jim Crow laws and segregationin the South in the 187 s. The struggle for domination details the conflict betweenRepublicans and Democrats, with widely varying agendas, and how thisstruggle influenced the unfolding of Reconstruction. Themovement for disfranchisement explains the persistent efforts of theDemocrats, restored to power in the South, in trying to "nullify thepolitical strength of blacks or to disfranchise them altogether" (Losing281). The final section illustrates the victory of white supremacy in theSouth through the marginalization of blacks as codified in law. If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.