Month: September 2020
The Battle of Liberty Place: White League Uprising Sept. 14, 1874
On September 12, 1874, a Saturday, posters began going up in New Orleans calling for the white people of the city to assemble at the…
How Did American History Textbooks Discuss Slavery, Emancipation, and Reconstruction?
Donald Yacovone, an associate at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard, is working on a new book about how American…
The White League Arms for Battle as Its Coup Draws Near
In September 1874 the City of New Orleans and nearby parishes saw the signs of an approaching military conflict. Street battles would not begin until…
White League Makes an “earnest effort to re-establish a white man’s government” 1874
The Louisiana White league was nothing if not earnest in its effort to “re-establish a white man’s government” in Louisiana in 1874. Mixing the tools…
Say Her Name: Julia Hayden, Black Teacher/White Death
Julia Hayden was a seventeen year old set to the exciting task of beginning her career as a teacher of young Black children in Tennessee….
“The Whites Must Rule the Land or Die” Poetry of the White League
The White League dominated the conversation on race in Louisiana in the mid-1870s. Their newspaper, the Opelousas Courier, provides us with access to the politics…
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