Category: White Terror
Rachel Powell, Leader of Gettysburg Occupation, Gets Nearly Five Years in Jail
Rachel Powell, who was a leader in the far-right occupation of Gettysburg on July 4, 2020, has been sentenced to nearly five years in jail…
The Reconstruction “Enforcement Act of 1870” Has Raised Its Head in Modern America
The Enforcement Act of 1870 was written to protect the democratic system during the Reconstruction Era from white supremacist conspiracies designed to take away the…
William Dunning Explains the Undoing of Reconstruction
This is the final installment of our Dunning Deep Dive. William Dunning was the leading academic writer on Reconstruction during the first half of the…
Monument to Man Killed Trying to Reverse Reconstruction to Be “Contextualized” in Hamburg
The July 1876 Hamburg Massacre was part of a series of terrorist acts planned by the supporters of former Confederate general Wade Hampton who was…
Series on How Confederate Heritage Impacts Alabama Wins Pulitzer Prize
Kyle Whitmire of AL.com in Birmingham, Alabama has won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his excellent series on the impact of Confederate heritage on…
Chart Shows Chronology of Lynchings of Blacks in Virginia After the Civil War
New data visualization from the Racial Terror: Lynching in Virginia project of James Madison University helps to illustrate chronological patterns in the lynchings of Blacks….
Colfax Massacre Monument Finally Erected in Louisiana
The April 13, 1873 Colfax Massacre in Louisiana took the lives of between 60 and 150 African Americans. The Massacre was the most costly of…
The Colfax Massacre in History and Memory Event April 12, 2023
On April 12, 2023 Reconstruction Era National Park is offering a Ranger Talk on the Colfax Massacre of 1873. Here is the National Park Service…
New Republic Reviews “I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction”
Kidada Williams’s new book I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction is getting reviewed widely. Here are excerpts…
Camilla Massacre Marker Finally Goes Up in Albany, Georgia
The September 19, 1868 Camilla Massacre was one of the bloodiest in Reconstruction Georgia. Freedpeople marching in a political demonstration were attacked by whites near…