It would be the first presidential election since the end of Reconstruction in 1877, after which African American voters faced violent suppression by Southern Democrats and could no longer count ...

Barack Obama, the first African-American presidential nominee of a major U.S. political party. The 2008 Democratic National Convention is being held later in the year than any previous convention ...

Harrison's concern for the enfranchisement of African Americans ... harm done to American sailors in Valparaiso. To the north, he negotiated with Britain and Canada to regulate seal hunting ...