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Reconstruction policies officially end.

Date: 1877

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Racial terror campaigns across the county have effectively re-established white supremacist rule. During the twelve year period of Reconstruction, more than 2,000 Black people are murdered in lynchings (that were documented). Thousands more are subject to lynchings and other forms of racial violence that are undocumented.