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Effort by Trump Administration to Alter History Teaching Condemned by Actual Historians

The final effort by the Trump administration to alter the teaching of history was a report from the newly minted 1776 Commission released on Martin…

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Celebrating Emancipation Day in the Heart of the Confederacy January 1, 1869

January 1 was celebrated in Black communities as Emancipation Day, a commemoration of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. While Juneteenth was celebrated in Texas, in many areas…

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Posted in 14th Amendment 15th Amendment African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Andrew Johnson Impeachment White Supremacy White Supremacy Apologetics

When Frederick Douglass Met Pres. Johnson to Ask for Right to Vote, Johnson Warned of Race War

On February 7, 1866 Frederick Douglass led a delegation of 13 representatives of the National Convention of Colored Men to the White House to meet…

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Podcast on the 1898 White Supremacist Coup that Took Control of Wilmington, N.C.

In 1898 the Redshirts, a White Supremacist paramilitary organization operating in the Carolinas, staged a coup in which they took over North Carolina’s second largest…

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Posted in Elections Uncategorized White Supremacy White Terror

The Plan to Suppress the Black Vote in South Carolina Revealed!: Election 1876

General Martin W. Gary was a Confederate brigadier general during the Civil War commanding cavalry. He had served in Hampton’s Legion and he had refused…

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“A dead Radical is very harmless” How to Win the Election of 1876

The Election of 1876 is most well-known for what happened after the polls were closed. Fraudulent and delayed vote counts, rival state tallies of votes,…

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When the White League Militia Took Over New Orleans in 1874 It Pledged to End the “Stupid Africanization” of Government

The White League was one of the largest and most dangerous of the Reconstruction Era militias. It embraced the worldview of the Ku Klux Klan,…

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How Terror Succeeded in Louisiana: Racial Violence and the Election of 1868 in One State

One of the few bright spots for Democrats in the 1868 Presidential Election was the State of Louisiana. 71% of votes tallied were for the…

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A KKK Death Threat to a Black Office Holder 1868

Gilder Lehman has a threat notice from the KKK issued against a Black officeholder in 1868. In addition to trying to suppress the Black vote…

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Posted in White Supremacy 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…

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