Category: White Terror
Washington Post on the Dangerous Life of a Black Politician in Reconstruction Georgia
The Washington Post has an interesting article on a Black politician who risked assassination to represent freedpeople in Georgia. Here are some excerpts from the…
In 1868 the Republican Campaign Song Promised That Grant Would “Make the Ku Klux Klan Shiver”
While modern political campaigns typically employ popular music at rallies as walk-on music for candidates, in the 19th Century most campaigns came armed with a…
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…
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…
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…
Freedmen’s Bureau Report for Virginia Sept. 30, 1868-The trials of whites for the murder of Negroes
By October, 1868, when this report on the work of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Virginia was published, the Bureau was just three months away from…
“A fixed predetermination on the part of…the white people…to resist…impartial suffrage” Louisiana 1868
When the Louisiana legislature investigated racial terrorism in 1868 during the elections that year, it issued a detailed report on what it found. The first…
The Secrets of the Knights of the White Camellia-White Terror in Louisiana 1868-1869
In 1869 a report on white supremacist terrorism connected to the Election of 1868 was published by a Joint Committee of the Louisiana Legislature. Entitled Supplemental…
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…
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