On this day in 1877, federal troops were used for the first time to quell labor unrest. Labor unions were not involved in this rolling series of work stoppages. Rather, they were spontaneous ...

The situation of Louisiana and South Carolina furuishes subject matter for sermons, lectures, debates, quarrels, and national consideration. There must be some principle involved in this subject ...

With backing from the Union army, millions of Black people in the South received ... Reconstruction. Federal troops effectively withdrew from the Confederate states in 1877. White southerners ...

Though the 2015 unrest was sparked by the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray and the 1877 strike began over ... even before federal troops arrived from Washington at the behest of Carroll and ...

So read a New York Times (pdf) headline of April 25, 1877. The article explained that ... The Grant administration had stationed federal troops in New Orleans (Baton Rouge would not become the ...

The so-called Compromise of 1877, would remove federal troops from the South ... Democrats to establish a “Solid South.” With the federal government leaving the region, states were free ...

WASHINGTON, June 5. The manufacturers of illicit whiskey in South Carolina have become so bold and determined in their operations that the use of Federal troops is required to enforce the Internal ...