Category: White Supremacy Apologetics
Defending the Right of Whites to Fire Blacks Who Voted Republican to Prevent Mongrelism- South Carolina Nov. 1868
Supporters of white supremacy did not only use violence to influence the votes of African Americans. They also threatened to fire them if they voted…
General Meade Outlaws Ku Klux Propaganda April 1868
On April 7, 1868 New York Times reported on an effort by General George Gordon Meade to halt pro-Klan propaganda efforts . Meade had commanded…
Murder of Judge Inconveniences Young People Hoping to Marry-KKK Attack October 1868
The Pulaski Citizen was the first newspaper to express sympathy for the Ku Klux Klan. Its pages provided the original impulse for the expansion of…
Book Review-The 1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre: Blood in the Cane Fields by C. Dier
The 1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre: Blood in the Cane Fields by C. Dier published by History Press (2017) 147 pages Harcover $23.99, Paperback $20.16, Kindle…
Gettysburg Times Covers Historians’ Day of Action #WeWantMoreHistory
On September 30, 2020, the Gettysburg Times published an article on the Historians’ Day of Action at Gettysburg. I was fortunate enough to have been…
The White League Monument at Liberty Place in New Orleans
On September 13, 1891 the New Orleans newspapers announced that the following day there was to be a celebration on Canal Street on the anniversary…
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…