At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency ... erupted in New Orleans. This time, a white mob attacked the attendees of a black suffrage convention, killing 37 blacks and ...

He was under orders to scout a suitable site for a military post, a mission personally approved by President Ulysses S. Grant ... the Black Hills, so he invented one, convening a secret White ...

One of these was the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, geared to counter the rise of white terrorist activity against blacks in the South. Ulysses S. Grant was inconsistent in his policy supporting ...

A depiction of General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox ... Confederate general James Longstreet became a pariah among white Southern conservatives because he had embraced the Republican Party and Black ...

President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War veteran, Herbert Preston. Copyright © 2017 by Wendel A. White President Ulysses ...