What impact did Black politicians have during the Reconstruction? In episode 77, Trevon Logan from The Ohio State University's Department of Economics discusses his research into the election of Black politicians after the Civil War ended in 1865, which led to increased tax revenues that were put toward public schools and land ownership reform. White Southerners, however, reversed that progress just 12 years later, augmenting the systematic disenfranchisement of African Americans that remains today. His open-access article "Do Black Politicians Matter? Evidence from Reconstruction,” was published in March of 2020 in The Journal of Economic History.
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Websites and other resources



Trevon's website and Twitter
Thread on Reddit's r/science forum regarding this research
Interview with Trevon on Question Lane podcast about this study
Article in OSU's student paper The Lantern on Trevon's NBER paper
Columbia University & Slavery project's "William Archibald Dunning: Father of historiographic racism Columbia’s legacy of academic Jim Crow"
Trevon TEDxColumbus discussion on residential segregation:

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