Redeemers nadir of American race relations Jim Crow laws disenfranchising racial segregation lynching Reconstruction the South established
Influential Southern Whites, calling themselves "Redeemers", took local control of the South after the end of Reconstruction, leading to the nadir of American race relations. From 1890 to 1910, the Redeemers established so-called Jim Crow laws, disenfranchising almost all Blacks and some impoverished Whites throughout the region. Blacks faced racial segregation nationwide, especially in the South, and lived under the threat of lynching and other vigilante violence.
