@paninid @StillIRise1963
https://richard.rathe.org/2020/contested-election-1876-tilden-hayes
Does this map look familiar? "1876 #US #presidential #election #contested #states
"#Tilden clearly won the popular vote, but the electoral vote as contested in four states for various reasons. Ironically (from today’s perspective) the Republicans accused the Democrats of suppressing the vote of African Americans in the South."
"The upshot of all this was the #CompromiseOf1877, an informal bit of horse-trading by #Congress to give the majority of electoral votes to #Hayes in return for the withdrawal of federal troops protecting the rights of former slaves in the South, thus ending #Reconstruction and paving the way for the #JimCrow era to begin."
A Dark Day for America, Let's Not Allow a Repeat!