Category: White Supremacy
Video National Constitution Center: The Long Shadow of the Election of 1876
According to the National Constitution Center: “2026 marks the 150thth anniversary of the contested election of 1876. Three renowned scholars join to discuss the election,…
Octavius V. Catto, Black Civil Rights Leader, Is Honored on the Street in Philadelphia Where He Was Assassinated in 1871
Philadelphia honored a leader of the Pennsylvania United States Colored Troops who was assassinated in 1871 for his voting rights activism. A new street sign…
The Original Black Panther: Prince Rivers and the Lost City of Hamburg by Stephen Berry
The Original Black Panther: Prince Rivers and the Lost City of Hamburg by Stephen Berry published by University of Georgia Press 302 pages (2026) Stephen…
Lincoln and the Superiority of the “Negro” Over the Irish
In 1864, a pamphlet appeared throughout the North that shocked voters. The pamphlet coined a new word, “miscegenation”, for the sexual union of blacks and whites….
The Testimony of Henry Adams, Freedman: Hope, Terror, and Exodus in the Post-Civil War South Introduction by Steven Hahn
The Testimony of Henry Adams, Freedman: Hope, Terror, and Exodus in the Post-Civil War South Introduction by Steven Hahn published by Library of America (2026)…
Senator Tillman On the Need to Stop Blacks From Voting During Reconstruction and in the 20th Century
Senator Ben Tillman was a Confederate veteran who became the governor and senator of South Carolina. Four decades after the Civil War he provided an…
A Black Man Tells Congress What African Americans Faced in the South During Reconstruction: Henry Adams
During Reconstruction, African Americans formed committees to record the violation of human rights by various white supremacist organizations like the Knights of the White Camelia…
Senator Ben Tillman Explains Why the Vote Was Taken Away from African Americans in South Carolina
Benjamin Tillman, better know as “Pitchfork Ben,” was a former Confederate who had risen to prominence as one of the most ruthless partisans of white…
Reconstruction Law Overturns Virginia’s Prohibition on Felons Voting
A court in Virginia ruled that current Virginia law banning felons from voting after they are released from jail violates Reconstruction laws. According to the…
The Democratic Party and the Racial Consciousness of Irish Immigrants Before the Civil War
Originally posted February 3, 2012 in The Immigrants’ Civil War by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Anthropologists like to remind us that race is not a…