Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction

…the contested Hayes-Tilden presidential election, Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction (1951), emphasized the economic motives that influenced that historic compromise. Woodward’s most widely read book was The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955), in which he showed that the legal segregation of whites…