At the Wormley Hotel in Washington, D.C., representatives of presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes and Southern Democrats held a private conference to resolve the disputed 1876 election. The resulting agreement, known as the Compromise of 1877, secured Hayes’s presidency in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from the South. This marked the end of Reconstruction and led to the disenfranchisement and systemic oppression of Black Americans for decades.
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