Hayes was a horrible president. Like his fellow fraudster who stole the White House 124 years later, he’d lost the popular vote, but traded an electoral win for the disenfranchisement of black Americans in the south, leading to decades of murderous injustice. It was also the death knell for the G.O.P. as a party of civil rights.
Hayes was a horrible president. Like his fellow fraudster who stole the White House 124 years later, he’d lost the popular vote, but traded an electoral win for the disenfranchisement of black Americans in the south, leading to decades of murderous injustice. It was also the death knell for the G.O.P. as a party of civil rights.