Category: White Terror
December 1868 Grant Investigates Political Violence in Arkansas
After the Civil War Ulysses S. Grant continued to command the United States Army. As president elect in 1868 Grant sent his trusted aide Horace…
Courageous Journalist Ida B. Wells Honored by Pulitzer Prize Committee for Struggle Against Lynching
Ida B. Wells was one of the strongest voices for Black freedom during the Jim Crow Era. An outstanding journalist, she campaigned against lynching alongside…
When Black and White Refugees Fled to Atlanta to Escape the Klan May 1869
Political and racial violence in the Reconstruction Era South was a factor in setting Southerners, Black and white, into motion as refugees. Ku Klux attacks…
“…our friend is dead. He was foully murdered by the Ku-Klux ” A Klan Killing of a Carolina State Senator
This letter was sent from Albion Tourgee to Gen. Joseph Abott reporting a killing of a Republican legislator in North Carolina in the Spring of…
Taking Practical Steps Against Miscegenation: John Walthall’s Murder in Georgia 1871
On October 21, 1871 Maria Carter, an African American woman, testified before the Joint Select Committee of Congress on the killing of John Walthall in…
April 1867 First Ku Klux Klan Convention Held in Nashville’s Maxwell House
The founding of America’s oldest terrorist group, the Ku Klux Klan, is shrouded in myth and legend. While Klan lore places its first meeting on…
“They hung three or four negroes nearly dead” The Ku Klux in Florence, Ala. Nov. 26, 1868
This account of a Ku Klux Klan occupation of Florence comes from the Democratic newspaper the Daily Phoenix. It was originally published in the Memphis…
Smithsonian Magazine on the St. Landry Parish Massacre Louisiana September 1868
Smithsonian Magazine has an interesting article on the St Landry Massacre of 1868. The article is a good overview of the mass murder of African…
Knights of the White Camelia and the Election of 1868 in Lousiana
I found an interesting article on one of the less well-known white supremacist terrorist organizations, the Knights of the White Camelia. This group was based…
St. Bernard Parish Massacre of Blacks in Louisiana October 25-26, 1868
I am looking at the violence that engulfed Louisiana in the weeks leading up to the November 1868 election. Republican Ulysses S. Grant would triumph…