TIME Magazine: The Civil War Continues

 TIME:

"Our Nation Is Still Divided Along the Battle Lines of the Civil War"

"By the 1870s the old Confederates re-enforced white rule, as they excluded and attacked African-Americans and other supporters of the federal government. Those who demanded fair treatment for vulnerable citizens were slandered, bullied, and sometimes killed. Hundreds of black and white men were lynched by organized mobs in the second half of the nineteenth century for daring to challenge the color line. Juries regularly acquitted the cold-blooded killers."

The full TIME Article is HERE.