- Mar 11, 2015
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A Republican president ended Reconstruction. Doing that made Jim Crow possible.Exactly. Jim Crow was a sop to Democrats who wanted no rights whatsoever for descendants of their slaves. The hopes freed blacks would sharecrop in debt bondage, keep quiet, and only technically be free. That happened in heavily Democratic counties.