Part 2 of Adam Fairclough's visit to the Louisiana Anthology Podcast to discuss his research on race relations in Louisiana. His book, Bulldozed and Betrayed: Louisiana and the Stolen Elections of 1876,
discusses the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of Jim Crow.
Prior to the 2020 presidential election, historians considered the
disputed 1876 contest — which pitted Republican Rutherford B. Hayes
against Democrat Samuel J. Tilden — the most controversial in American
history. Examin