1870
In 1870, black Americans enjoyed unprecedented optimism under the protection of Reconstruction. That year, the 15th Amendment gave black Americans the right to vote and the first African-American was sworn into Congress. While all that was happening, America’s budding industrial and corporate dominance began to take shape as business titans emerged. John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil that year.
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