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The Irish World Condemns the Creation of the White League in Louisiana 1875

In 1875 The Irish World published an editorial condemning the organization of the White League in Louisiana. The White League pledged to do openly what…

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Confederate Veteran Says that End “of Slavery Is…Abolition of Labor” in July 1865

Alcibiade DeBlanc was an officer in the Confederate army during the Civil War. At the end of the conflict he became a leading spokesman for…

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Profiles in Courage, Adelbert Ames, JFK and Reconstruction Racism

Today’s New Yorker has an article by Nicholas Lemann on persistent questions he has about John F. Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize winning book Profiles in Courage….

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On the Use of the Word “Terrorism” to Describe Violence During Reconstruction: Anachronism?

I am sometimes asked if my using the word “terrorism” to describe racial or political violence during the Reconstruction Era is anachronistic. It isn’t. I…

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Watch Video of Armed Militiamen Confronting Pastor Wearing Black Lives Matter Shirt at Gettysburg

The far-right militiamen who assembled fully armed at Gettysburg on July 4th mobbed a Methodist pastor in the National Cemetery there because he was wearing…

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The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Adam H. Domby

The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Adam H. Domby published by University of Virginia Press, 272 pages (2020) Hardcover…

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Man in BLM T-Shirt “Removed” from Gettysburg Cemetery Armed Right-Wing Militia and KKK Mobilize to Occupy Gettysburg for July 4

On Saturday July Fourth a man was removed from Gettysburg National Cemeterywhere he was visiting the grave of an ancestor because he was wearing a…

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New Report Says 2,000 Blacks Lynched During Reconstruction Era

A new report from the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) says that from the end of the Civil War in 1865 until the traditional close of…

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Confederate Veteran William Simkins Describes His Role in the Ku Klux Klan

William Simkins was a professor of law at the University of Texas in Austin on Thanksgiving in 1914 when he decided to use his speech…

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In 1863 When a Black Man Refused to be Whipped Was He a Murderer if He Killed His Enslaver?

Here is an incident that I read about recently set during the early period of Reconstruction while the Civil War was still raging. I found…

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