Tilden received a quarter of a million more popular votes than Hayes, prompting Democrats to refer to the newly elected president as “His Fraudulency.” Challenges: Reconstruction effectively ended in ...

Hayes' appointments included Democrats and Southerners -- ex-Confederates. During his presidency, the White House joined the temperance movements in banishing alcohol from the premises.

were white Southerners’ best attempt to restore their former way of life. Back when “everyone knew their place.” This arrangement worked out for Rutherford B. Hayes. Not for Black ...

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Servin would be honoring her country by visiting the resting place of its greatest hero—the 19th American president, Rutherford B. Hayes ... Easter Egg Rolls to the White House—wound up ...