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March 2nd

2 events recorded on The Ledger.

  1. 1867
    The Rise

    Howard University chartered

    President Andrew Johnson signs the act of Congress chartering Howard University in Washington, D.C. Named for Freedmen's Bureau commissioner Oliver Otis Howard, it produces Thurgood Marshall, Zora Neale Hurston, Kamala Harris, and generations of Black professional leadership.

  2. 1877
    The Record

    Compromise of 1877

    Congressional leaders settle the disputed Hayes-Tilden presidential election. Rutherford B. Hayes takes the White House and federal troops withdraw from Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida. Reconstruction ends and the white-supremacist Redeemer governments take hold across the South.

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