Brief
November 4, 2020
Primary tasks
Abstract
Fiscal policy was of primary importance to the white supremacist governments that came to power on a wave of electoral fraud, intimidation, and violence at the end of the Reconstruction. By the end of the 19th Century, the fiscal system, like the larger legal framework of the Jim Crow South, had been configured to simultaneously preserve racial hegemony and disempower working people.
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